Category: cybersecurity

A California health plan is facing a class-action lawsuit after a data breach that reportedly affected more than 850,000 patients.

The top motivation of healthcare cyberattacks was financial, comprising 95 percent of hacking incidents, according to a May 24 Verizon data breach report.

Seymour, Ind.-based Schneck Medical Center notified patients that a data breach has exposed some of their personal health information. 

Cybersecurity experts testified at a May 18 senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing that cybersecurity training and advocacy was needed to strengthen cybersecurity in healthcare. 

Atrium Health’s venture capital arm is among the funders pouring more than $200 million into a cybersecurity company’s expansion.

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine notified patients that a data breach had potentially exposed some of their personal health information.

Four Russian-affiliated organizations are posing a threat to U.S. healthcare organizations and the public health sector, according to an alert issued May 19 by the HHS Cybersecurity Program.

Healthcare cybersecurity is an increasingly important issue, as it can protect the health and data of patients and save health systems from expensive cyberattacks.

When a University of Vermont Medical Center employee opened an email file from her homeowners association, which had been hacked, it led to the health system becoming the target of a phishing attack, costing it $54 million, Pew Research reported May 18…

Ransomware group AvosLocker claims to be behind the recent cyberattack on the Irving, Texas-based Christus Health, according to HIPAA Journal.