Category: cybersecurity

A convicted hospital hacker wasn’t involved in the recent U.S.-Russia prisoner swap but could be part of a future exchange, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 7.

Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth identified unusual computer system activity July 31 and took action to contain the issue, according to an Aug. 3 post on Bayhealth’s Facebook account.

HHS has suspended sanctions and penalties for specific violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, offering hospitals in the path of Tropical Storm Debby greater flexibility in their response efforts.

McLaren Health Care confirmed the Aug. 6 IT disruption was the result of a “criminal cyberattack,” and the health system is continuing to restore its IT and phone systems.

An organization that supplies blood to hundreds of hospitals in the Southeast said it was a victim of a ransomware attack. 

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago did not pay a ransom after it was targeted by hackers, ABC affiliate WLS reported Aug. 6. 

A Michigan health system is rescheduling elective procedures following an IT outage that began Aug. 5.

Hospital and health system vendors continue  to be targeted in cyberattacks in 2024, creating data breaches that ultimately affect  healthcare organizations. 

Change Healthcare has mailed the first of what are likely to be millions of data breach notifications following a February ransomware attack.

A ransomware group claimed that it stole 10 gigabytes of data from a Maine hospital, databreaches.net reported.