The HHS Office of Inspector General is in the midst of an ongoing investigation into the Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, an HHS OIG spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review March 28.
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.
Although 79 percent of healthcare professionals expressed concern about the cybersecurity of their own healthcare information, 68 percent said their organizations are doing enough to protect patient privacy, according to a survey commissioned by cybersecurity firm Venafi.
Hackers broke into Baltimore's computer-assisted dispatch system, which supports the city's 911 and other emergency calls, causing city officials to revert to manual processes, according to NBC News.
Boeing, the U.S. aircraft manufacturer, is recovering from a limited malware attack, believed to be WannaCry, that affected a small number of its systems March 28, according to The Seattle Times.
In 2017, "bad bots" accounted for 21.8 percent of all website traffic, up 9.5 percent from 2016, according to a Distil Networks report.
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The HHS Office for Civil Rights highlighted the importance of an organization having a contingency plan in place to recover after a cyberattack in its March newsletter.
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…
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.