Cybersecurity

The American Hospital Association has named Scott Gee as its new deputy national advisor for cybersecurity and risk.

Philadelphia-based Main Line Health has made "chaos engineering" a cornerstone of its cybersecurity strategy, CSO Online reported Aug. 23. 

A federal grand jury has indicted an alleged member of a hacking group that tried to extort hospitals.

In an era where healthcare operations are becoming increasingly digitized, the risks associated with cybersecurity are evolving at a rapid pace.

The ransomware group known as Everest has begun targeting the healthcare sector.

A Georgia hospital confirmed it fell victim to a ransomware attack.

McLaren Health Care confirmed that its Aug. 6 IT disruption was the result of a ransomware attack.

A Connecticut health system is notifying patients that their data may have been exposed after a hacker accessed an employee's email account.

It took a rural Minnesota health system a week to recover from the recent global IT outage that affected large swaths of the healthcare industry, the Kittson County (Minn.) Enterprise reported.

Poway, Calif.-based Palomar Health Medical Group has fully restored operations after a May cyber incident forced the organization to take systems offline.