Boston Children's Health Physicians reported patient data exposure after a third party vendor suffered a data breach.
Cybersecurity
A federal grand jury indicted two Sudanese nationals for cyberattacks including a 2024 hack of Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai.
Iranian hackers are increasingly targeting healthcare organizations, using "brute force" and password spraying attacks to compromise user accounts and gain unauthorized access to sensitive systems.
The costs of the Change Healthcare cyberattack continue to grow for parent company UnitedHealth Group.
Thousands of patients' data was exposed by a data breach involving a partner of revenue cycle management company Gryphon Healthcare.
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Oceanside, Calif.-based Tri-City Medical Center is notifying 108,149 individuals that their protected health information may have been exposed in a 2023 data breach.
Lubbock, Texas-based UMC Health System has restored its EHR more than two weeks after a cyberattack.
Axis Health System identified a cyberattack affecting operations, including its primary care patient portal, according to the health system's website.
A Maryland medical center said it paid ransom to hackers to unlock its data.
In 2024, the percentage of healthcare organizations paying ransomware demands decreased to 36%, down from 40% in 2023. However, those that did comply faced steeper costs, an Oct. 8 survey from Proofpoint and Ponemon Institute found.