Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Scripps Health in San Diego has sent a local woman other patients' medical records on three separate occasions, even though she has reported the issue, according to ABC 10 News.

Hundreds of documents containing patients' protected health information and belonging to five Houston area hospitals were recently found on a sidewalk by a KHOU11 employee.

Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Gwinnett Medical Center is investigating a security incident involving the names, dates of birth and genders of 40 patients that were exposed on Twitter after being accessed by an unauthorized user, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital…

L.D. Gill, hospital security officer at Atlanta-based Emory University Hospital, discusses how hackers are using mobile and medical devices to break into hospital cybersecurity systems and the best way staff can help in the aftermath of an attack.

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine began notifying roughly 3,700 patients on Sept. 28 about a mailing error that may have inadvertently exposed their names and contact information.

A mailing error at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services may have exposed about 813 of its clients' personal information, newsok reports.

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.

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.