The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report April 5 outlining recommendations to improve CMS' oversight of Medicare beneficiary data security.
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.
Chesapeake (Va.) Regional Healthcare notified 2,100 sleep center patients after discovering two unencrypted, portable hard drives containing their electronic protected health information were missing.
Facebook suspended two more analytics firms for taking user data under false pretenses, according to Fortune.
Customer payment information from Sears Holding Corp. and Delta Air Lines may have been exposed when their software service provider [24]7.ai was breached around Sept. 26, 2017, according to CNBC.
Healthcare cyber insurance claims comprised 18 percent of all cyber claims submitted in 2017, but they represented 28 percent of total breach costs, according to the annual NetDiligence Cyber Claims Study.
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Cybersecurity company Trend Micro and nonprofit Health Information Trust Alliance released a joint report, titled "Securing Connected Hospitals," April 5.
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.