The Mississippi State Department of Health sent letters March 26 to an undisclosed number of Mississippi residents after it learned an employee mistakenly emailed an Excel spreadsheet containing patients' protected health information to J Michael Consulting, a CDC contractor in…
Cybersecurity
A researcher at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management claims more than 2,100 patient deaths each year can be attributed to hospital data breaches, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Email, internet, the majority of phone lines and several other electronic systems at Geneva, N.Y.-based Finger Lakes Health have been restored after a ransomware attack shut them down March 18, a FLH spokesperson told Becker's Hospital Review.
After ransomware struck the city of Atlanta's computer network March 22, its systems are still not fully operational, according to The Washington Post.
The cybersecurity team at Health Care Service Corp., an insurance agency, goes to great lengths to ensure its customers' — which includes the records of the nearly 15 million Blue Cross Blue Shield members in five states — data are…
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The Federal Trade Commission will investigate how Facebook protects its users' data, the agency said March 26.
Barkly, a cybersecurity company focused on endpoint protection, released its 2018 Malware Trends Forecast, which details malware evolution during the past year.
A team of researchers dug through recycling bins to study hospital information security practices, uncovering almost 2,000 items with sensitive personal health information in less than two years.
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect May 25, and it applies to anyone — even those in the U.S. — who handles European citizens' personal information, according to Bloomberg.
CareMeridian, which operates subacute care facilities in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado, mailed letters to 1,922 individuals after it discovered an unencrypted disk sent by a third-party associate had been lost in the mail, CareMeridian spokesperson Dwight Robson told Becker's…