Category: cybersecurity

The IT networks at San Antonio, Texas-based Baptist Medical Center and New Braunfels, Texas-based Resolute Health Hospital were infected by malicious code that allowed an unauthorized user to access the personal health information of some patients. 

UChicago Medicine notified patients that an unauthorized user had access to some employee email accounts, putting protected health information of patients at risk. 

Central Florida Inpatient Medicine is notifying patients of an email data breach after a cybersecurity incident that affected 197,733 people.

Public-facing video services such as TikTok, Facebook Live and Twitch are not compliant with federal privacy regulations for use in telemedicine appointments, HHS said in a guidance.

Burlington, Vt.-based UVM Medical Center worked with Epic and its clinical and IT teams to get its health system up and running after a ransomware attack took down its IT network and applications in October, JDSupra reported June 13. 

Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health notified patients of a data breach that occured at its clinical guidance vendor, which has potentially exposed the protected health information of patients. 

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 69,589 patients of a data breach that occurred when someone accessed an employee’s emails.

Cybersecurity experts say that the two biggest threats to healthcare cybersecurity are insider threats and ransomware. 

Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center notified patients about a ransomware attack that forced the hospital offline and potentially exposed the protected health information of patients. 

The U.S. government has dismantled a dark web operation that sold Americans’ personal information.