Muncie-based Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital is notifying some of its patients after a bag containing billing paperwork with patient information was found at an intersection in Muncie, according to a notice on the organization's website.
Cybersecurity
Staunton, Va.-based Valley Family Medicine is notifying 8,500 patients of a security incident after two employees printed and misused a mailing list, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
The Emergency Care Research Institute ranked ransomware and other cybersecurity threats as the No. 1 health technology hazard for 2018, according to its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2018 list.
Americans are more worried they will be a victim of a cybercrime than any other crime, according to Gallup's annual crime poll.
The majority of organizations leverage encryption to secure corporate data held on personal devices, according to a Bitglass survey.
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The October cybersecurity newsletter from the HHS Office for Civil Rights focused on securing protected health information held on mobile devices such as cellphones, tablets and laptops.
The Security Service of Ukraine believes a group of hackers called Fancy Bear, allegedly linked to Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, was behind last week's Bad Rabbit ransomware attack, CyberScoop reports.
The average cost to recover from a data breach was $3.6 million in 2017, according to AT&T's cybersecurity insights report.
Health insurer CareFirst is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's ruling that permitted a data breach class action lawsuit against the company to advance, according to an analysis by Reuters reporter Alison Frankel.
Reps. Billy Long, R-Mo., and Doris Matsui, D-Calif., reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would require HHS to improve its responses to cyberthreats.