Indiana University Health, based in Indianapolis, reported a security incident involving a team member’s email account that may have exposed limited patient information, including a small number of Social Security numbers.
Centre County Judge Brian Marshall has granted preliminary approval to a $1.8 million settlement in a lawsuit against Mount Nittany Health, potentially providing payments to about 74,000 patients, Centre Daily Times reported Jan. 6.
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a data breach that compromised the personal information of about 2.1 million individuals, Top Class Action reported Jan. 3.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass., and its parent organization, Boston-based Beth Israel Lahey Health, over a December 2023 data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of 316,342 …
A data breach at Staten Island, N.Y.-based Richmond University Medical Center has potentially exposed sensitive personal and health information of 674,033 individuals.
Healthcare organizations are ramping up their cybersecurity defenses, with a growing focus on third-party risk management, network security and proactive infrastructure improvements, a Jan. 2 report from KLAS found.
Watsonville Community Hospital in California has fully restored access to its IT network after a cyberattack in late November forced the facility to adopt downtime procedures.
El Paso, Texas-based Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare has revealed that patient records were inappropriately accessed and potentially disclosed by a former employee over a two-year period, from Jan. 1, 2018, to March 12, 2021.