Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

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…

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…

Google is reportedly getting into the blockchain game, zeroing in on an application to support its cloud business, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

A surgeon from the U.K. who was remotely advising Syrian physicians performing an operation at a hospital in the war-torn country believes his computer may have been hacked, leading to the hospital being bombed, according to The Telegraph.

The single largest breach in February exposed 135,000 patient records in a ransomware attack on Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Surgery & Endoscopy Center, according to a Protenus report.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger inadvertently exposed the email addresses of nearly 2,000 respondents who completed a customer insights panel survey, The Times-Tribune reports.