About 595 NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem patients received letters notifying them to a potential compromise of their protected health information after a laptop went missing from the facility in January.
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.
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources is notifying about 4,000 patients who received care in 2017 that their protected health information may have been breached when an unauthorized third party potentially gained access to some employees' email accounts.
Inogen, an oxygen supply device manufacturer, is notifying 30,000 existing and former customers their personal data may have been improperly accessed, Reuters reports.
A cyberattack that shut down most of the City of Atlanta's networks is going to cost taxpayers nearly $2.7 million — a steeper price tag than the $50,000 ransom hackers demanded — Channel 2 Action News reports.
Most hackers claim they are able to break into their victims' computer systems, determine their most valuable data and extract it within 15 hours, according to recent survey exploring the minds of hackers.
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A registration employee at Miami-based West Kendall Baptist Hospital exploited patient credit card information to make personal purchases, the hospital discovered March 9.
IT decision makers aren't all that confident about moving to the cloud, according to a recent survey commissioned by iboss, a cloud-based web security solution provider.
Healthcare marks the only industry where insider threats are more prevalent than those from the outside, according to a Verizon report.
HHS' Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center released a report March 30 on SamSam, an ongoing ransomware campaign that has targeted the healthcare and government sectors since 2016.
Microsoft released two protection capabilities for Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal subscribers April 5, Corporate Vice President for Office Kirk Koenigsbauer wrote in a company blog post.