The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, issued an alert on July 25 warning IT administrators about malicious cyberattacks targeting enterprise resource planning applications.
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Omaha, Neb.-based Boys Town National Research Hospital is notifying 105,309 patients and staff after hospital officials discovered unusual activity on an employee's email account in May.
Blue Springs (Mo.) Family Care is notifying 44,979 patients that their protected health information may have been compromised when the practice's computer system was infected with ransomware in May.
April was the healthcare industry's biggest month for paper record breaches so far in 2018, according to data from the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
Google Cloud and ClearDATA, a healthcare cloud provider, teamed up to bring cybersecurity and compliance tools to IT developers in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
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More than 1,200 patients who visited Dothan, Ala.-based Flowers Hospital may be eligible to receive settlement payments resulting from a four-year-old class-action lawsuit, according to a WTVY report.
A database for SingHealth, Singapore's public health system, has been compromised in what the country's Health Ministry and Ministry of Communications and Information called a "deliberate, targeted and well-planned cyberattack."
LabCorp, one of the largest clinical blood testing labs in the U.S., is about 90 percent recovered from a SamSam ransomware attack that began around midnight July 13, CSO Online reports.
Kingsport, Tenn.-based Ballad Health fired an employee for accessing patients' health information without a medically-necessary reason to do so, according to a WJHL report.
Change Healthcare launched a new cloud security service July 17 as part of its value-based care analytics suite HealthQx.