Cybersecurity

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health is notifying 2.65 million individuals after its third-party billing vendor AccuDoc Solutions was hacked in late September.

Mason City-based Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa mailed notification letters to about 1,900 patients after discovering a former employee may have inappropriately accessed their protected health information, the Globe Gazette reports.

Hackers are reportedly selling stolen credit card details with Black Friday discounts on the dark web, according to The Telegraph.

A surgeon at Lexington-based University of Kentucky HealthCare recently sent two emails containing detailed patient information to roughly 60 individuals, including a news producer at ABC 36.

Two hospitals owned by Ohio Valley Health Services & Education Corp. say patients records remained secure after an attempted ransomware attack Nov. 23, The Times Leader reports.

Data breaches in healthcare are 50 percent more likely to stem from internal mistakes by employees than from external causes, such as hackers, according to a recent analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana warned members of potentially deceptive phone calls claiming to be made by the health insurer, according to myarklamiss.com.

Deven Cook Sr., information systems security officer at Battle Creek (Mich.) VA Medical Center, explains why humans will always be the biggest threat to information security and how his hospital implemented a proactive cybersecurity training approach for staff.

New York Oncology Hematology in Albany mailed letters to all of its patients and employees notifying them that some of their protected health information may have been accessed as the result of an email phishing attack.

Vikrant Arora, chief information security officer at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, discusses how to promote strong cyber hygiene and what new forms of cybersecurity threats hospitals should look out for.