A limited amount of patients' personal information may have been exposed when Framingham, Mass.-based Charles River Medical Associates discovered an unencrypted, portable hard drive was missing from its bone density testing workstation in November 2017, a hospital spokesman confirmed to…
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.
The Tulsa-based Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences began mailing letters Jan. 5 to some of its Medicaid patients after it learned an unauthorized third party gained access to some folders stored on its computer network in November.
Three states — California, Oregon and Indiana — have filed class-action lawsuits against Intel after security researchers revealed vulnerabilities in its computer chips last week, according to The Hill.
Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration is notifying 30,000 Medicaid enrollees their personal information may have been compromised when one of the agency's employees was the victim of a phishing email attack, AHCA confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
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.
The cybersecurity community began work Wednesday to patch vulnerabilities in processors used on almost every computer around the world, according to CNBC.