Category: cybersecurity

Federal lawsuits related to a data breach affecting more than 1 million Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger patients are expected to be consolidated into a class action, PennLive reported July 29.

Federal agencies are intensifying their efforts to crack down on foreign hackers targeting U.S. hospitals and health systems.

UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare has begun sending out letters to individuals affected by its Feb. 21 ransomware attack. 

A former Kaiser Permanente employee inappropriately accessed the health system’s EHR and may have viewed medical information and photos.

Healthcare saw the most expensive data breaches across all industries, with average breach costs reaching $9.77 million, a July 30 report from IBM found. 

More than a week after a global IT outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, hospitals and health systems have largely returned to business as usual. So CIOs are focused on what comes next.

Amid growing concerns over class-action lawsuits against healthcare organizations following data breaches, state lawmakers are taking action to limit liabilities for these organizations, Politico reported July 29.

A New Hampshire-based health system recently fell victim to a ransomware attack, databreaches.net reported July 29.

Losses for the healthcare industry from the CrowdStrike IT outage are estimated to reach $1.9 billion, according to a July 24 report from Parametrix Solutions, a provider of cloud monitoring, modeling and insurance services. 

A California health system was breached after a hacker gained access through “push notification spamming.”