Cyberattackers have reportedly been using a strain of ransomware called CryptoMix to remotely hack computers and then falsely claiming that victims' ransom payments will be used to fund children's medical help, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.
Cybersecurity
Four hospital and health system chief information security officers discuss the latest cybersecurity threats and health IT trends.
A Massachusetts man will serve more than 10 years in prison for his role in a 2014 cyberattack on the computer networks of Boston Children's Hospital and a mental health facility, Reuters reports.
Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment facility in Richmond, Mich., is notifying "a limited number of patients" after a phishing scheme compromised an employee's email account in April, MLive reports.
Healthcare data breaches are on the rise, with health plans accounting for the largest share of breached records at 63 percent from 2010-17.
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Amazon has acquired Israeli disaster-recovery startup CloudEndure, Reuters reports. CloudEndure offers continuous backup and cloud migration services to help businesses move their data to the cloud.
Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform, entered into a strategic partnership with Radar, a provider of incident response management software.
Two separate data breaches disclosed in December 2018 exposed the protected health information of 31,876 plan members of Managed Health Services, which runs Indiana's Hoosier Healthwise and Hoosier Care Connect Medicaid programs, according to HIPAA Journal.
Humana recently mailed data breach notification letters to 684 members informing them that a hacker had accessed a vendor's systems as early as May 2018.
A health services provider used by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan experienced a ransomware attack in September 2018, according to a sample letter obtained by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, which contracts with BCBS of Michigan.