Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

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.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced Nov. 13, its Computer Forensics Research Lab will partner with Facebook to monitor online violations of its community standards for illicit drug sales.

Health First, a nonprofit community health system comprising four hospitals in Brevard County, Fla., is notifying 42,000 patients to a potential compromise of their personal information, Florida Today reports.

Ninety percent of providers have installed an off-site backup system for their data, according to the 2018 HealthCare's Most Wired survey.

Altus Baytown (Texas) Hospital posted a notice to its website alerting patients to a potential compromise of their protected health information stemming from a September ransomware attack.

Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., is notifying 1,216 patients of a breach after it learned that an employee had accessed their medical records without authorization, according to syracuse.com.

CMS has revealed more details about the hack on an Affordable Care Act sign-up portal involving about 75,000 consumers in mid-October, according to TechCrunch.

There were 117 healthcare breaches disclosed during the third quarter of 2018, comprising nearly 4.4 million patient records, according to a report from cybersecurity software company Protenus.

Google recently came under fire after a cybersecurity vulnerability in their Google+ product was discovered to have exposed the private data of millions of users.