BJC HealthCare in St. Louis said Dec. 18 that malware on its website may have exposed credit card information from 5,850 individuals, the St. Louis Business Journal reports.
Cybersecurity
Chris Joerg, chief information security officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, shares advice for how to best prevent email phishing attempts targeted at employees as well as some of the IT trends he would like to learn more…
The University of Vermont Health Network-Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital is notifying 32,000 patients after an unauthorized individual breached an employee's email account in October.
Hospitals across the U.S. received email bomb threats on Dec. 13 as part of a large-scale extortion attempt that authorities say is not credible, according to multiple news sources.
Dickon Smart-Gill, CIO and chief information security officer at managed security services provider Proficio in Carlsbad, Calif., shares the big cybersecurity threats he thinks hospitals need to be on the lookout for as well as how technology is keeping up…
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Nashville-based Aspire Health is abandoning its search for a hacker that stole 124 emails in a phishing scam in September after an internal investigation determined the emails were intercepted before the hacker opened them, according to the Tennessean.
Pagosa Springs (Colo.) Medical Center has agreed to pay $111,400 to the HHS Office for Civil Rights and adopt a corrective action plan to settle allegations that it failed to terminate a former employee's access to protected health information held…
New York City-based health insurer EmblemHealth agreed to pay New Jersey $100,000 to resolve allegations it disclosed the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of more than 6,000 residents, according to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.
Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System is investigating a malware attack that affected about 250 of its 27,000 devices early Dec. 9, The Baltimore Sun reports.