Category: Cybersecurity and Privacy, Analytics, Data and Information

CMS notifies patients impacted by data breach

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is notifying Medicare beneficiaries whose personal information may have been involved in a data incident affecting Medicare.gov accounts.
CMS said it identified suspicious activity related to the unauthori…

Fitch downgrades two nonprofit hospitals due to cyberattacks

Cyberattacks can affect any hospital but have a disproportionate effect on smaller hospitals.
Fitch Ratings recently took credit action on two nonprofit health systems, downgrading both after each experienced a crippling cyberattack.
While most cyber e…