Category: cybersecurity

Hackers have been impersonating hospital revenue cycle workers and tricking IT staff into giving them log-in credentials to steal money from the health systems, the American Hospital Association warned.

Money Message ransomware gang is claiming to be responsible for the Dec. 24 hack on Newburyport, Mass.-based Anna Jaques Hospital, The Record reported Jan. 19. 

Hackers are increasingly attempting to extort patients directly as health systems bolster their cyber defenses, Bloomberg Law reported Jan. 22.

Hackers pilfered about $7.5 million from HHS last year using a technique called “spearfishing,” illustrating the continued cybersecurity threat facing healthcare, Bloomberg reported.

As ransomware attacks on hospitals and health systems hit an all-time high in 2023, executives, legislators and patients alike are searching for a solution.

The FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and National Counterterrorism Center announced Jan. 12 ongoing bomb threats to multiple public institutions, including hospitals and health systems.

Singing River Health System has notified 253,000 patients that their data was compromised in a data breach in 2023.

A cloud-storage firm has returned stolen data to a New York health system that had sued to get it back, Information Security Media Group reported.

Patient data from St. Louis-based Ascension was encrypted and stolen in a recent cyberattack on a third-party vendor, the company said.

As healthcare organizations across the country are seeing an increase in cybersecurity incidents coupled with a rise in violence against nurses, physicians and hospital staff, San Diego-based Scripps Health has hired a new secret weapon to try to make …