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.
Category: cybersecurity
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.
Daixin Team targeting healthcare organizations with ransomware, US agencies warn
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.
NC attorney general investigating whether WakeMed, Duke Health shared patient data with Facebook
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.
