Cybersecurity

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare patients are among approximately 22,500 individuals whose information was accessed after an unauthorized third party gained entry to payment accounts on Connecticut’s Medicaid provider portal. The incident involved the HUSKY Medicaid provider portal, which is administered by…

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed against Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital alleges the health system disclosed patients’ protected health information to Google and other third parties through tracking technologies embedded on its website. The lawsuit, filed May 20 in the U.S.…

The Silent Ransom Group has been posing as IT employees to gain access to organizations’ devices and networks, targeting industries including healthcare, the FBI warned. The threat actors, who have been active since at least 2022 and don’t use encryption,…

The biggest roadblock to digital health’s future isn’t patient adoption or EHR interoperability. According to Ryan Cameron, executive vice president and chief information and innovation officer at Children’s Nebraska in Omaha, its identity management and the window to get ahead…

Microsoft has disrupted a cyber threat actor that targeted industries including healthcare, the tech giant said. In May, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, in partnership with Resecurity, interrupted Fox Fox Tempest’s malware-signing-as-a-service, which cybercriminals have employed to distribute malicious code, according…

Health system CIOs are eagerly watching the development of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, an yet-to-be-publicly-released AI model that can detect and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The AI startup decided not to launch the new version of Claude because of those cybersecurity concerns,…

Healthcare has been among the industries most affected by data breaches related to staff mistakes, according to Verizon. “Breaches take many forms, but in the healthcare sector, one pattern stands out: miscellaneous errors,” the telecom giant stated in its annual…

AI company Anthropic is enabling users previewing Claude Mythos to share their cybersecurity findings with other organizations. Here are six things to know about the development and what it means for healthcare: 1. Anthropic decided not to publicly release its…

HHS is proposing a major overhaul of the HIPAA Security Rule, a move that would introduce new mandatory cybersecurity requirements for hospitals, health systems and other covered entities. On Jan. 6, 2025, HHS’ Office for Civil Rights published a Notice…

A new report released May 18 outlines the potential risks of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, which has health system leaders on edge because of the AI’s ability to detect and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities Here are six things to know from the…