Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, began notifying about 43,000 patients who were seen at its main hospital, AultWorks Occupational Medicine and some Aultman physician offices of a potential compromise of their protected health information.
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Rochester, Minn.-based Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology discovered March 31 ts files had been locked with a variant of ransomware that also disabled affected computers' system restore functions and reformatted the network storage device where the practice kept local backups.
The FBI issued a warning May 25 that Russian hackers infected hundreds of thousands of home and office routers with malware, which could collect user information or shut down network access, according to Reuters.
Humana is notifying an undisclosed number of members their protected information may be jeopardized after its technology team determined several calls to its automated 1-800 numbers were "suspicious," according to a notice posted by the office of the Vermont Attorney…
The Health Information Trust Alliance, a security and privacy standards development and accreditation organization, released a certification program for a national cybersecurity framework May 22.
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The vast majority (77 percent) of healthcare IT professionals are very concerned about a cyberattack striking their organization, according to a recent survey commissioned by Imperva, a cybersecurity firm.
In a recent press release, Black Book Market Research LLC, a leading healthcare and public opinion research company, ranked Fortified Health Security as the top cybersecurity services and solutions vendor in its medical device and internet of things (IoT) category.
Ipswich Hospital in England reportedly disciplined two staff members who accessed Ed Sheeran's patient information without a legitimate reason, according to the BBC.
HHS' Office for Civil Rights is planning to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in November to get the public's input on a policy change that would share HIPAA settlements with the victims of their respective data breaches, according…
South Bend, Ind.-based Allied Physicians of Michiana is recovering from a May 17 ransomware attack involving the SamSam variant.