The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an advisory April 27 warning organizations to apply timely patches and implement a centralized patch management system to reduce their risk of compromise from the most common cyber vulnerabili…
West Palm Beach, Fla.-based St. Mary’s Medical Center provided a timeline to the cybersecurity incident that took down its phones and computers, WPTV NewsChannel 5 reported April 26.
In the last six months, several payers, providers and revenue cycle vendors began warning patients about data breaches that affected medical billing information.
The HHS issued a warning April 20 about an increase in data breaches involving individuals within a healthcare organization, such as employees, contractors and business associates.
Chicago-based South Shore Hospital is facing three lawsuits over a December cyberattack that left 115,670 patients’ protected information vulnerable, Top Class Actions reported April 22.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with authorities from the U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, issued a new advisory on malicious Russian state-sponsored cyber activity.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency expanded the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to include GE and Siemens.
Adaptive Health Integrations, a Williston, N.D.-based company providing healthcare billing services, suffered a breach in October that exposed 510,574 individuals’ data.
The FBI issued a flash warning April 19 about the BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service operation that is responsible for stealing organizations’ data.
Healthcare data breaches, many of which are caused by cyber criminal groups, continue to be a major threat to the efficiency of hospital operations and the safety of patient data. Nearly 1 million health records were breached in the U.S. in March. Belo…
