Category: cybersecurity

After taking its EHR offline after its servers were compromised, Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health has successfully brought its patient records system back online as of Feb. 5. 

Chicago-based Lurie Children’s Hospital is looking into a “cybersecurity issue” as its computers, internet and phones continue to be offline for the sixth consecutive day, contributing to a systemwide network outage.

Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health took its EHR offline Feb. 3 after some of its servers were compromised, according to a notice on the health system’s website.

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago said it took its IT systems offline as it deals with a “cybersecurity matter.”

A ransomware gang said it is giving a Chicago hospital two days to pay a nearly $900,000 ransom or else it will leak its patients’ data, The Record reported Jan. 31.

IT and phone systems went down Jan. 31 at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, causing appointments to be delayed and parents unable to access MyChart.

Three health systems were listed as top companies for data breaches in a Jan. 25 report from nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. 

A hacker who pleaded guilty to aiding hospital cyberattacks was sentenced to five years and four months in prison.

The HHS has released a set of voluntary cybersecurity performance goals tailored to the healthcare sector that aim to help protect the industry from cyberattacks and improve response when events occur. 

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health is the latest big health system to face a lawsuit over a data breach involving a medical transcription vendor.