Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

The Veterans Affairs Department stopped posting online quarterly reports about security breaches affecting veterans for about nine months this year, according to a Nextgov investigation.

A recent press release by Iron Mountain Inc. discusses their second quarter 2018 results. 

Richard Mitchell, CIO at Eagleville Hospital – a behavioral health treatment and educational organization in Pennsylvania, discusses the need to prioritize the various types of hospital data as a cybersecurity initiative.

There have been 229 data breaches affecting 6.1 million individuals submitted to HHS' Office for Civil Rights' breach portal since the start of 2018, according to HealthcareInfoSecurity.

Nearly 70 percent of U.S. healthcare providers haven't purchased cyber insurance, according to a recent survey.

Legacy Health in Portland, Ore., is notifying about 38,000 patients of a May phishing attack that may have compromised personal, medical and billing information.

For nearly five years, data contained within the computer systems and networks of Adams County in Wisconsin — including personally identifiable information, protected health information and tax information — of 258,120 individuals had been inappropriately accessed, possibly by an elected…

Maryland did not adequately follow federal requirements to secure its Medicaid data and information systems, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report.

The Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems-Cyber Emergency Response Team issued an alert Aug. 14 about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in some Philips-made medical devices, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.

Augusta (Ga.) University is notifying 417,000 patients about a potential compromise of their protected health information after hackers stole 24 employees' email account login credentials through a series of phishing emails in September 2017.