Patients who were treated in the emergency room, Same Day Surgery Center or Urgent Care site at the Siena, San Martin or De Lima campuses of St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Las Vegas between July 17 and Oct. 16, 2017…
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There were 140 data breaches reported to HHS' Office for Civil Rights breach portal as IT or hacking events in 2017 — 36 of which were ransomware related, according to cybersecurity firm Cryptonite's 2017 Health Care Cyber Research Report.
Personal information of 8,256 patients at Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Bronson Healthcare Group may have been exposed when the organization's email system was hit with a phishing attack, though no medical records were compromised, according to MLive.
Chris Larsen, the co-founder and executive chairman of ripple, an alternate cryptocurrency to bitcoin, is now worth roughly $59.9 billion, ranking him among the top five richest people in America, according to CNBC.
The tech industry is scrambling this week to quickly update cloud services and other products after vulnerabilities in processors used on almost every computer were disclosed to The Register by researchers Tuesday, according to CNBC.
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The cybersecurity community began work Wednesday to patch vulnerabilities in processors used on almost every computer around the world, according to CNBC.
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine mailed letters to roughly 1,000 patients, alerting them to a potential compromise of their personal information after an unencrypted laptop was stolen from the hospital, a spokesperson told Becker's Hospital Review.
Although ripple is the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market value, it's not listed on Coinbase, the No. 1 exchange platform for crytpocurrencies. But, the digital coin hit a record high Wednesday and continues to rally, CNBC reports.
Fifty-six percent of Americans feel as if the country as a whole is less secure today than past years, according to a survey Tempe, Ariz.-based University of Phoenix released Oct. 26.
Cybersecurity company McAfee Labs recorded a 10 percent surge in malware volume during the third quarter of 2017, detecting nearly 57.6 million samples, according to a Dec. 18 report.