Patients planned to rally in front of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., over IT outages and delayed prescriptions there, News 12 in New Jersey reported Dec. 15.
Category: cybersecurity
HC3 warns healthcare organizations of BlackCat ransomware variant
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, or HC3, is warning healthcare organizations to be on the lookout for the BlackCat ransomware variant.
Feds warn healthcare sector about LockBit 3.0 ransomware threat
HHS issued a brief Dec. 12 warning healthcare organizations about the cybersecurity risks associated with ransomware group LockBit 3.0.
Patient data accessed in cybersecurity incident at California hospital
Banning, Calif.-based San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital said patient data was accessed during a recent cybersecurity incident at the facility.
8 largest healthcare data breaches of 2022 tied to vendors
Eight of the largest healthcare data breaches of 2022 were tied to third-party vendors. Here is the list of the breaches, as reported by Becker’s Hospital Review:
Feds warn against cybersecurity risks associated with automation in healthcare
HHS issued a brief Dec. 8 warning healthcare organizations about the cybersecurity risks associated with automation.
New York hospital network still recovering after a November cybersecurity incident
New York City-based One Brooklyn Health’s hospitals are still working to fully restore some of its IT and EHR systems after a November cybersecurity incident caused three of its hospitals to shut them down, GovInfoSecurity reported Dec. 8.
HHS warns of Royal ransomware threat targeting healthcare providers
The HHS released a warning Dec. 7 about a human-operated ransomware group known as Royal that is increasingly becoming a threat to the healthcare sector.
More than 620,000 patients' data breached in CommonSpirit ransomware attack, new report shows
More than 620,000 patients of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health had their data breached in the recent ransomware attack on the nation’s second-largest nonprofit health system, according to a report to the HHS Office of Civil Rights.
Arkansas hospital settles data breach lawsuit for $295K
Conway (Ark.) Regional Medical Center will pay $295,000 to settle a lawsuit regarding a June 26, 2019, data breach in which patient information was compromised due to a phishing attack, Top Class Actions reported Dec. 7.
