Oceanside, Calif.-based Tri-City Medical Center is responding to a cyberattack that they are designating as an “internal disaster” forcing them to divert ambulances, local news outlet KGTV reported Nov. 9.
Category: cybersecurity
Millions of Northwell Health patients potentially caught in transcription data breach
Millions of patients at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health could potentially be affected by a data breach on a medical transcription service used by the health system.
Hospital IT workers work all night to stop cyberattack
IT workers at an Idaho hospital worked all night on a recent Sunday night to thwart a cyberattack, Rexburg Standard Journal reported.
Ransomware gang 8Base strikes US healthcare sector
Ransomware gang 8Base is emerging as a new threat to the U.S. healthcare sector after it attacked a medical facility in October, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned in a Nov. 1 alert.
Norton Healthcare still feeling effects of cyber event
In May, hackers targeting Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare posted personal health information on the dark web; local news outlet WDRB reported Nov. 6 that the health system is still dealing with the fallout.
Data breach affects 1.2 million patients at Illinois system
Millions of patients at Chicago-based Cook County Health could have had their protected health information stolen as the health system’s former medical transportation services firm, Perry Johnson & Associates, suffered a data breach, CBS News reported …
Patients can get up to $50 each in Advocate Aurora pixel settlement
Patients of Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care may be eligible for a piece of the $12.2 million settlement the health systems reached over the use of pixel tracking technology.
HHS reaches $100K ransomware settlement with healthcare org
Doctors’ Management Services, a medical management company based in West Bridgewater, Mass., agreed to pay HHS and the Office for Civil Rights a $100,000 settlement due to a ransomware attack that affected the protected health information of 206,695 in…
HSHS addresses data security breach
Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System said it has begun reviewing the data that has been potentially impacted by an August cybersecurity incident on the health system.
Connecticut hospital's financial crisis deepens after cyberattack
Vernon, Conn.-based Rockville General Hospital’s parent company, Prospect Medical Holdings, was hit by a cyberattack in August that exacerbated Rockville’s financial struggles, the Hartford Courant reported Oct. 29.
