Category: cybersecurity

Campbellsville, Ky.-based Taylor Regional Hospital notified its patients that a cybersecurity incident, which began with a hack of its systems, led to patient information being exposed.

Data breaches are a massive threat to healthcare providers, as they cause delayed care, financial loss and an erosion of patient trust. Despite providers’ efforts to implement security protocols, data breaches remain rampant across the industry. 

In 2021, the share of residents whose protected health information was exposed in a data breach was 10 percent or more in 22 states, according to a March 23 Politico report.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, cyberthreats persist. Here are five recent warnings issued by U.S. federal agencies about cyberthreats connected to the conflict:

The White House urged the private sector March 21 to harden its cyber defenses due to evolving intelligence that the Russian government may be exploring cyberattack options. 

Below are six hospitals and health systems that posted job listings in March seeking chief information security officers.

Healthcare organizations will be required to report any cyberattacks to the Department of Homeland Security, under a law signed March 15 by President Joe Biden, Bloomberg reported March 16.

A Cape Canaveral, Fla.-based medical services contractor recently agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle the Justice Department’s first civil cyberfraud initiative case. 

The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint advisory March 15 that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors gained network access through exploitation of default multifactor authentication protocols and a known vulnerability…

There were more than 50 million patient records breached in 2021, according to a March 10 report from healthcare compliance analytics company Protenus.