Battle Creek, Mich.-based Brookside ENT and Hearing Center is shutting down after cyber hackers deleted all the practice's patient records, WWMT, a CBS affiliate, reports.
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
UCLA Health has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by patients after a data breach put their personal and health information at risk, according to the HIPAA Journal.
A patient of University of Connecticut Health is suing the health system, claiming it "failed to implement adequate and reasonable cybersecurity procedures and protocols," exposing her bank account to fraudulent activity after the health system was hacked in December, according…
The Hippocratic oath and the principles embodied in “duty of care” guide the daily actions of healthcare providers. But when it comes to information security and protecting sensitive PHI, is the healthcare community living up to those principles?
Global insurance company Marsh & McLennan partnered with various insurance companies to launch a program that evaluates cybersecurity software and technology sold to businesses, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Hackers compromised an automatic software update tool with malware to maliciously gain backdoor access to thousands of Asus customer computers last year, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab told online magazine Motherboard.
Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health is alerting patients of a cyberattack last July that may have affected patients' personal information. The cyberattack targeted employee email accounts.
More than half of company CIOs believe their employees have purposefully put their organizations' data at risk in the last year, according to an Egress software company survey.
The Oregon Department of Human Services reported an email phishing attack on two million agency emails, which may have exposed more than 350,000 individuals' medical information.
A security breach at Greenville, S.C.-based St. Francis Physician Services' former medical center may have compromised data from more than 32,000 patients, HIPAA Journal reports.