The Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine Minneapolis fell victim to a ransomware attack Oct. 3, which may have compromised some of its patients' protected health information.
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Lowell (Mass.) General Hospital notified 769 patients after it learned an employee may have inappropriately accessed their medical records, according to HHS' Office for Civil Rights breach portal.
San Antonio-based Center for Health Care Services, a mental health and substance abuse provider, began notifying 28,434 patients after it learned one of its former employees secretly took patients' protected health information from the facility on his personal laptop computer,…
Detroit, Mich.-based Henry Ford Health System is notifying 18,470 patients whose protected health information may have been compromised after someone gained illegal access to employees' email credentials, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
A security researcher revealed a hack on a single IV pump or a digital smart pen could blossom into a full-fledged breach exposing a healthcare organizations' patient records, according to Dark Reading.
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The American Hospital Association is offering a webinar series to ease healthcare's cybersecurity woes.
In just one year, the sale of ransomware on the dark web grew more than 2,500 percent, meaning cybercrime has become a game everyone wants to play.
Cyberattacks struck hospitals and health systems at an alarming rate this past year — nearly exceeding the rate of one breach per day.
The November cybersecurity newsletter from the HHS Office for Civil Rights discussed how healthcare organizations can tighten termination procedures to curb insider threats.
McAfee, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based cybersecurity company, released its "McAfee Labs 2018 Threats Predictions Report" Nov. 29.