In a Nov. 21 analyst note, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned healthcare organizations about Lorenz, a human-operated ransomware group known for its “big-game hunting.”
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Kaiser Permanente employee inappropriately accessed EHR — 8,000 patients affected
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States notified 8,556 patients that some of their information was compromised due to an employee inappropriately accessing portions of its electronic health records.
Community Health Network’s ‘pixel’ breach may have compromised patient data
Indianapolis-based Community Health Network is notifying patients that some of their protected health information may have been sent to Meta and Google.
California hospital confirms IT security incident
Banning, Calif.-based San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital said a cybersecurity incident disrupted its IT operations.
Watchdog says HHS faces ‘significant’ challenges in trying to protect health data
A new report from the departmental Office of Inspector General said the HHS is facing “significant challenges” in protecting data and technology from cyberthreats and must improve how its entities share public health data, BankInfoSecurity reported Nov…
Hive ransomware gang has made $100M from victims’ payments
Hive, a ransomware group known to target the healthcare industry, has received approximately $100 million in ransom payments.
IT issue forces Rhode Island hospital to cancel surgeries
Wakefield, R.I.-based South County Hospital canceled surgeries on Nov. 17; patients were called and informed that the hospital’s technology was “down,” GoLocalProv reported Nov. 17.
Lake Charles Memorial Health System reports cyberattack
Lake Charles Memorial Health System is notifying patients that unauthorized activity on its computer systems has resulted in patient information being compromised, KPLC News reported Nov. 16.
Why healthcare mergers and acquisitions are a cybersecurity risk
As Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, formed by the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives in 2019, dealt with a weeks-long fallout from a ransomware attack, health system CIOs and chief information security officers say these large a…
Why hackers target pediatric health records
Stoddard Manikin, chief information security officer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, said hackers are targeting children’s hospitals to use data from pediatric health records to apply for loans, BankInfoSecurity reported Nov. 15.
