Category: cybersecurity

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…

The HHS Cybersecurity Program issued an alert April 19 to healthcare providers warning them to defend against the “exceptionally aggressive” Hive ransomware group.

Emporia, Kan.-based Newman Regional Health notified patients that a 2021 email breach exposed patient health information.

San Diego-based Scripps Health notified a second round of patients that a 2021 ransomware attack had exposed their personal health information, La Jolla Light reported April 17.

Janesville, Wis.-based Mercy Health issued a warning about an email breach that has potentially exposed the personal health information of patients.