Cybersecurity

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services and its business associate, The Management Group, notified 779 participants of its IRIS program — a Medicaid home- and community-based service for adults with long-term care needs — to a breach of their personal…

Virtua Medical Group, a network of physicians affiliated with more than 50 South New Jersey-based medical and surgical practices, agreed to pay $417,816 to settle allegations it  failed to secure more than 1,650 patients medical records when they were made…

Facebook initially estimated information from about 50 million users was improperly collected by political research firm Cambridge Analytica, but company officials upped the count April 4 to 87 million, according to The New York Times.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health is back online after it lost access to its computer network in an outage that began April 4, but patient care has not been affected, according to Fox 9.

In a recent press release, Fortified Health Security, a leader in cybersecurity, compliance and managed services focused solely on the healthcare industry, recently partnered with Beacon Health System to strengthen the health system’s overarching cybersecurity program.

The number of breached records dropped almost 25 percent in 2017, according to a IBM Security report released April 4. However, this drop may point to a more sinister trend in the global threat landscape.

The Office of Personnel Management told federal agencies they have one year to identify and report cybersecurity skill shortages in their workforces, according to The Hill.

Grindr, a gay dating app, gave users' HIV statuses and other information from their profiles to two outside data-optimization firms, according to The Hill.

Numerous privacy incidents at health IT suppliers, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.

Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance began notifying roughly 2,500 patients an unauthorized third party had some of their protected health information, according to a notice on the organization's website and reported by The Boston Globe.