A patient has filed a lawsuit against Advocate Aurora Health and Facebook parent company Meta over their use of “pixel” technology that may have ensnared protected health information.
Category: cybersecurity
Hackers access Georgia hospital’s system network
Tift Regional Health System is notifying patients about an August data breach that may have compromised the protected health information of 500 patients.
Keystone Health faces lawsuit for data breach that affected 235,237 patients
Chambersburg, Pa.-based Keystone Health, a primary care provider, is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly failing to prevent a data breach that compromised the protected health information of 235,237 patients.
Healthcare remains ‘lucrative target’ for cyberattackers, study says
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.
Preparing for the worst: How some CIOs are using tabletop games to simulate ransomware attacks
Health CIOs and chief information security officers are preparing for ransomware attacks with something more commonly associated with hobby shops than hospitals: tabletop games.
Phishing scheme may have compromised info of 33,850 Michigan Medicine patients
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.
Hacker compromises Social Security numbers of 980 patients at Minnesota hospital
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.
IU Health to develop cybersecurity lab for medical devices
Indianapolis-based IU Health is developing a cybersecurity lab to test medical device security.
25% of ransomware attacks aimed at healthcare industry, FBI says
The healthcare sector has been hit with 25 percent of ransomware attacks so far in 2022, according to FBI data.
Some CHI Memorial systems restored weeks after CommonSpirit ransomware attack
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.
