Ransomware attackers have been tormenting the healthcare industry. But are these hacks more prevalent than in other sectors?
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
Patients' protected health information has gone missing from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
A second ransomware group is reportedly trying to extort UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare over the recent cyberattack.
A hacking gang claims it nabbed data on several other payers in the cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group's Change Healthcare, CyberScoop reported.
Change Healthcare has asked a U.S. court panel to consolidate dozens of cyberattack-related lawsuits to a federal court in Tennessee.
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Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope reported a data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of patients last year.
Kootenai Health is investigating a breach of its IT network, the Coeur d'Alene Press reported April 4.
New Bern, N.C.-based CarolinaEast Health System will receive $45 million as it is experiencing cash flow issues due to the Feb. 21 cyberattack on Change Healthcare, News 12 reported April 3.
Hackers tried to steal files on a cancer treatment to hold for ransom in a recent cyberattack on Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope, databreaches.net reported.
UnitedHealth Group initially gave few details about the Change Healthcare hack then tried to recruit providers to act as spokespeople for its loan program, The Wall Street Journal reported.