Nearly 90 physicians were without access to Maryville, Tenn.-based Blount Memorial Hospital's computer network for about three days in early May after a corrupted file took down its physicians group system, according to The Daily Times.
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.
The University of Utah Health John A. Moran Eye Center, based in Salt Lake City, is warning 607 patients their protected health information may be at risk after a computer and associated external storage device used to take and store…
A Purdue University security team discovered an unauthorized access file installed on certain computers at the West Lafayette, Ind.-based Purdue University Pharmacy in April. One month later, the team found malware on a computer at the Family Health Clinic of…
Numerous privacy incidents at health IT suppliers, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
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.
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.