UC San Diego Health has notified 619 patients that their protected health information may have been compromised as part of the massive Nuance Communications data breach.
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.
Internet crimes targeting the healthcare sector cost victims $925,849 in 2017, according to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center's annual report.
A recent press release by Iron Mountain announces their entrance into the Croatian market with the acquisition of Archiv Trevor.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine is notifying approximately 870 patients after an employee's personal laptop computer that stored limited health information collected for research was stolen from his car June 3.
A U.S. district court judge in Washington, D.C., on June 15 dismissed a case by a patient who alleged Laboratory Corporation of America, or LabCorp, violated HIPAA, reaffirming the precedent that individual patients cannot file lawsuits for alleged HIPAA violations,…
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There's a new type of ransomware scam making its way across the internet, according to English IT security company Sophos.
A Johnson County, Mo., man using an antenna to pick up TV channels on his laptop received unencrypted patient information from several local and distant hospitals, according to The Kansas City Star.
KLAS Research released a report on cybersecurity services in June to evaluate the performance of various vendors in the space.
Hackers potentially stole nearly 270,000 health and insurance records when they broke into computers at Med Associates, a health billing claims company.
A federal judge in Arizona sentenced 23-year-old Randall Tucker, also known as "Bitcoin Baron," to 20 months in prison for launching an attack that crippled the emergency communications system of the city of Madison, Wis.