Privacy incidents at technology companies, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
Cybersecurity
Miracle-Ear and Best Hearing Products are notifying 554 of Best Hearing Products' clients that their personal health information may have been exposed when an unknown and unauthorized intruder gained access to the email account of an employee who provides support…
St. Louis-based SSM Health is notifying at least 29,000 patients whose records were inappropriately accessed by an employee in the customer service call center between Feb. 13 and Oct. 20, 2017.
A limited number of information services at Wellsville, N.Y.-based Jones Memorial Hospital have been offline for an unspecified number of days following a cyberattack, according to a notice on the hospital's website.
Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based cybersecurity company, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Dec. 18 over the decision to ban Kaspersky Lab's software at government agencies, NPR reports.
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Operating divisions within HHS displayed configuration management and access control vulnerabilities, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report released earlier this month.
Cyberattacks targeted hospitals and health systems at an alarming rate in 2017 — nearly exceeding the rate of one breach per day. Increasingly for healthcare organizations, preparing for a cyberattack is a question of when, not if.
As bitcoin becomes a household name, other types of digital currency that thrive off blockchain technology are gaining legitimacy, too.
After a Farmingdale, N.Y.-based beverage maker Long Island Iced Tea Corp. pivoted its business structure toward blockchain technology, which included revising its name to include the word "blockchain," its stock spiked more than 200 percent at the open of trading,…
Federal regulators are allowing cyber insurer Beazley Group to cover a $2.3 million HIPAA fine on behalf of its bankrupt client, 21st Century Oncology, according to Healthcare Info Security.