An unauthorized user or users accessed the email accounts of a "small number" of University of Chicago Medicine employees, potentially compromising patient health information.
Cybersecurity
Hackers accessed the emails of two pediatric health system employees, exposing patient data.
St. Louis-based Ascension said it expects patients and providers to notice progress on its cyberattack response after Memorial Day weekend.
Several hospitals and health systems have reported cybersecurity incidents that have led to compromised patient data and IT systems during May.
A Wyoming hospital said its financial situation is improving since the Change Healthcare hack but is not back to where it was before the February cyberattack, the Powell (Wyo.) Tribune reported.
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A hospital employee inadvertently attached a file to a patient email that exposed the data of thousands of other patients.
Ascension, a 140-hospital system based in St. Louis, continued to deal with the fallout of a ransomware attack more than two weeks after the hack took its IT network offline.
In April, hackers breached the IT network of CentroMed, a healthcare provider based in San Antonio, Texas, compromising the protected health information of 400,000 patients.
Hospitals and health systems continue to be targeted by ransomware hackers, disrupting patient care and costing millions of dollars in recovery costs.
Multiple hospital groups are urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to hold UnitedHealth's subsidiary Change Healthcare accountable for providing breach notifications regarding its February cyberattack.