MEDantex, a medical transcription service for hospitals, clinics and private physicians, leaked thousands of physicians' patient medical records because it failed to password protect a portion of its site — an error found by KrebsOnSecurity April 20.
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.
Symantec identified a hacker group known as Orangeworm that is breaking into U.S. healthcare organizations' X-Ray, MRI and other medical machines as part of an ongoing corporate espionage operation, according to a Symantec report released April 23.
The Public Accounts Committee of the U.K. Parliament released an update on the U.K. National Health Service's cybersecurity preparedness in a March 18 report.
Earlier in 2018 , the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the Illinois Department of Human Services mailed 4,136 individuals notices that contained their personal information to incorrect addresses, a department spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
Interest in "cloud-first" strategies, which prioritize cloud computing over on-premises servers, has fallen among IT professionals since 2016, according to a McAfee survey.
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West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health fell victim to a cyberattack in February, jeopardizing 16,000 patients' personal information, according to WMTV.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolina Digestive Health Associates began notifying about 100 patients after it learned an employee stole their personal information — including Social Security numbers, dates of birth and names — and shared it with fraud suspects, according to wsoctv.com.
Polk County (Iowa) Health Services accidentally and unknowingly disseminated the protected health information of some patients who received care at the Crisis Observation Center in Des Moines, Iowa from June 2014 to January 2018.
Lake Mary, Fla.-based MedWatch, a care management company that offers risk management solutions to self-funded health plans, began notifying their clients' health plan members April 13 that a vendor misconfiguration error exposed their protected health information between October 2017 and…
A former employee of Martinsburg, W. Va.-based Berkeley Medical Center — which is part of WVU Medicine University Healthcare — will pay more than $22,000 in restitution to resolve allegations of obtaining patients' information to open credit cards and other…