Category: cybersecurity

A Georgia hospital confirmed it fell victim to a ransomware attack.

McLaren Health Care confirmed that its Aug. 6 IT disruption was the result of a ransomware attack.

A Connecticut health system is notifying patients that their data may have been exposed after a hacker accessed an employee’s email account.

It took a rural Minnesota health system a week to recover from the recent global IT outage that affected large swaths of the healthcare industry, the Kittson County (Minn.) Enterprise reported.

Poway, Calif.-based Palomar Health Medical Group has fully restored operations after a May cyber incident forced the organization to take systems offline. 

As hospitals and health systems have improved their cybersecurity, hackers have still been interrupting healthcare by setting their sights on third-party technology companies and suppliers.

While some of the nation’s largest health systems have fully recovered from the Feb. 21 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare, smaller systems are still grappling with its effects, an Aug. 13 report from Strata Decision Technology found.

Chicago-based Roseland Community Hospital Association identified unauthorized access to its IT network June 2.

A McLaren Health Care employee claimed staff were told they must use their paid time off to cover the days missed following the cyberattack that struck the organization on Aug. 6, Fox 2 Detroit reported.

A data security incident disrupted some of the IT systems at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health.