Sixty-one percent of healthcare organizations say they’ve suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure in the past year, and the vast majority say these IT incidents hurt them financially, according to a study by cybersecurity vendor Netwrix.
Health CIOs and chief information security officers are preparing for ransomware attacks with something more commonly associated with hobby shops than hospitals: tabletop games.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine is notifying 33,850 patients that some of their personal health information may have been compromised due to a phishing scheme that targeted employees’ email accounts.
Saint Paul, Minn.-based Regions Hospital is notifying 980 patients that some of their personal information has been compromised due to an August data breach.
Indianapolis-based IU Health is developing a cybersecurity lab to test medical device security.
The healthcare sector has been hit with 25 percent of ransomware attacks so far in 2022, according to FBI data.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CHI Memorial restored some EHR functions Oct. 21, more than two weeks after a ransomware attack shut down IT systems belonging to its parent company, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, a CHI Memorial spokesperson told Becker’s.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and HHS issued a joint warning Oct. 21 about ransomware group Daixin Team, which is targeting U.S. healthcare and public health organizations.
The North Carolina attorney general’s office is investigating Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed and Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health for possibly sharing patient data with Facebook, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s.
The healthcare industry is under attack. One of the nation’s largest health systems, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, has been dealing with a ransomware incident that has led to EHR outages and canceled appointments at its hospitals around the nation…
