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.
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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 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.
Privacy incidents at technology companies, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
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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.
Operating divisions within HHS displayed configuration management and access control vulnerabilities, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report released earlier this month.