Facebook discovered a security issue Sept. 25 that exposed an estimated 50 million users' accounts, marking one of the social-media giant's largest data breaches to date.
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Eight privacy incidents at healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
Uber agreed to pay $148 million to settle a November 2016 data breach that affected about 57 million drivers and riders, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said Sept. 26.
Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg, N.Y., terminated an undisclosed number of employees after hospital officials identified breaches of patient health information during a recent internal investigation, according to North Country Now.
Healthcare data breaches are on the rise, according to public data reported in a research letter and published in JAMA Network.
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Nashville, Tenn.-based Aspire Health lost some patient information to an unknown cyberattacker who gained access to its internal email system in September, federal court records filed Sept. 25 and reviewed by The Tennessean show.
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre outlined five questions board members should ask their organization's chief information security officers about cybersecurity preparedness.
Jim Garrett, interim chief information security officer at University Hospital of Newark, New Jersey, and CISO at Mount Airy, Md.-based Quality IT Partners Consulting, discusses the digital revolution's effect on healthcare and the new wave of clinical and cloud-based analytical…
Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., canceled all remaining elective surgeries around 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18, after its IT team discovered a computer virus, wane.com reports.
Derek Dudley, director of IT and an IT security officer at Madison (S.D.) Regional Health System, discusses today's biggest threats to hospital data protection and what cyberattacks are in store for the future.