Healthcare data breaches are on the rise, according to public data reported in a research letter and published in JAMA Network.
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
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.
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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.
Independence Blue Cross in Pennsylvania is notifying an undisclosed number of plan members about a potential compromise of their protected health information after an employee uploaded a file containing personal data to a website that was publicly accessible for three…
Greg Garcia, executive director for cybersecurity at Washington, D.C.-based Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council, discusses the vulnerability that a lack of investment in cybersecurity can cause for hospital systems, and how C-suite executives can maintain strong methods of data protection.
Amazon is initiating an internal investigation into suspected internal data leaks by some employees for bribes, The Wall Street Journal reports.
An employee at Kings County Hospital's emergency room stole nearly 100 patients' private information and sold it through an encrypted app on his phone, according to New York Daily News.