Category: cybersecurity

Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope reported a data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of patients last year.

Kootenai Health is investigating a breach of its IT network, the Coeur d’Alene Press reported April 4. 

New Bern, N.C.-based CarolinaEast Health System will receive $45 million as it is experiencing cash flow issues due to the Feb. 21 cyberattack on Change Healthcare, News 12 reported April 3. 

Hackers tried to steal files on a cancer treatment to hold for ransom in a recent cyberattack on Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope, databreaches.net reported.

UnitedHealth Group initially gave few details about the Change Healthcare hack then tried to recruit providers to act as spokespeople for its loan program, The Wall Street Journal reported.

A cybercriminal group is targeting health system IT help desks in a new scheme to gain access to the organization’s computer systems and divert payments, according to an April 4 warning from the American Hospital Association.

HHS is launching a “one-stop-shop” for cybersecurity preparedness in response to the cyberattack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare in February, Federal News Network reported April 1.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear a case April 3 on whether hospitals violated a state law prohibiting wiretapping when they had third-party analytics tools on their websites, the Boston Globe reported.

HHS fined Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health $100,000 for failing to provide timely access to medical records under HIPAA.

Fairfield, Calif.-based NorthBay Health’s IT systems have been disrupted by a cybersecurity incident, according to a post on the system’s Facebook page.