Indianapolis-based Eskenazi Health has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement over a 2021 data breach.
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.
A limited number of employee emails at LifeBridge Health were breached by an unauthorized third party.
A former employee of Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health inappropriately accessed patient records for a year.
Health system ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2024, affecting more than 1,000 U.S. hospitals, cybersecurity firm Emsisoft reported.
Sidney (Mont.) Health Center disclosed a privacy incident involving patient information after discovering a physician saved patient data to a personal Google account without authorization.
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More than 65,000 patients of San Francisco-based Dignity Health may have had their protected health information compromised in a September hack.
Indiana University Health, based in Indianapolis, reported a security incident involving a team member's email account that may have exposed limited patient information, including a small number of Social Security numbers.
Centre County Judge Brian Marshall has granted preliminary approval to a $1.8 million settlement in a lawsuit against Mount Nittany Health, potentially providing payments to about 74,000 patients, Centre Daily Times reported Jan. 6.
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a data breach that compromised the personal information of about 2.1 million individuals, Top Class Action reported Jan. 3.