Category: cybersecurity

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins said it has heightened security protocols amid Change Healthcare’s cyberattack. 

The American Hospital Association called Change Healthcare’s temporary funding program for providers affected by the cyberattack on the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary inadequate, while a U.S. Senate leader asked CMS to speed up payments to hospitals.

Optum’s Change Healthcare continued to deal with outages March 1, nine days after a ransomware attack took its systems offline. Here are seven updates.

Russia-based ransomware gang ALPHV/Blackcat, aka BlackCat, has made headlines due to its attack on Change Healthcare, but the group has been targeting healthcare for a while. 

It’s not just hospitals and pharmacies that have been disrupted by the cyberattack on Optum’s Change Healthcare — physician practices have been hit hard too.

What does the Change Healthcare ransomware incident mean for healthcare organizations? Doubling your cybersecurity spending, according to one health system CIO. 

Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations have cost the U.S. economy nearly $80 billion in downtime. There’s another expense that doesn’t come with a price tag: The sense of stress and helplessness outages cause. 

Optum’s Change Healthcare confirmed Feb. 29 that it was hacked by a ransomware gang after the group claimed to have stolen massive amounts of data.

What is the main concern for hospitals and health systems when it comes to the Change Healthcare attack? The potential impact to patient care and safety, John Riggi, the American Hospital Association’s national adviser for cybersecurity and risk, told …

Healthcare organizations experienced 35% of third-party breaches, according to a Feb. 28 report from Security Scorecard.