Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

UnitedHealthcare will no longer share its claims data with the Health Care Cost Institute, the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter reports.

A global ransomware attack could cost the U.S. economy up to $89 billion, according to a new report from the Cyber Risk Management project.

Integrity House, a nonprofit substance use disorder treatment facility in Newark, N.J., is notifying 7,206 of its patients of a data security incident after a number of business computers and tablets were stolen from its offices in November.

Apple is working to correct a bug in its FaceTime app that could allow callers to remotely tap into another user's microphone even if that user hasn't picked up the call, CNBC reports.

Verity Health System, a six-hospital system in Redwood City, Calif., is notifying an undisclosed number of individuals to a potential exposure of their protected health information stemming from three incidents.

Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Associates in Lakewood, Colo., notified 23,377 patients about a potential exposure of their protected health information after an unauthorized individual gained access to an employee's email account.

Officials at the Delaware Department of Insurance said five health insurers and about 650 of their members were affected by a data breach at a third-party administrator in October, Delaware Online reports.

Healthcare is the only industry where data breaches perpetrated by insiders outnumbered those that originated from external sources last year, according to Verizon's "2018 Data Breach Investigations Report."

Alaskan officials have upped their tally of individuals likely affected in a June 2018 data breach at the state's health department from 501 victims to 700,000, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.

An employee at Lebanon (Pa.) VA Medical Center emailed a veteran's family member a document that contained the protected health information of up to 1,002 of elderly patients, the hospital told HIPAA Journal.