Hackers posted more than 20,000 files stolen from the Florida Department of Health containing physician notes and personal health information on the dark web, according to The Tampa Bay Times.
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A former employee of Nuance Communications who was responsible for breaching the records of more than 1.2 million patients at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger has had their trial pushed back, The Daily Item reported July 12.
Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital reported some patients' information was breached during Medibase's data security incident.
There have been 121 ransomware attacks against the U.S. healthcare industry in the last six months, with 10 hacking groups emerging as the most active within the industry, according to a July 11 report from Atlanta-based software company Cyble.
The data of patients at Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth might have been impacted by a breach on one of the system's vendors.
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Hackers are giving an Illinois hospital until July 17 to pay ransom following a cyberattack, Security Affairs reported.
Change Healthcare plans to begin contacting patients whose data was breached during the February ransomware attack in late July.
Court records allege that a former Nuance employee accused of breaching patient data from Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger had fake IDs and a machine used to create them, PennLive reported.
Poway, Calif.-based Palomar Health Medical Group is inching closer to restoring access to its systems after suspicious activity forced them offline.
Health systems and industry trade groups are objecting to new cybersecurity reporting requirements proposed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.