Category: cybersecurity

Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network has achieved 73 percent in cost savings after replacing its legacy data security vendor with Rubrik.

Vecino Health Centers, based in Houston, was affected by the MOVEit cyberattack and is notifying patients affected by the breach.

Anahi Santiago, chief information security officer at Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare, received the Routhy Award, recognizing her success within cybersecurity.

An unauthorized party has copied files from Tifton, Ga.-based Tift Regional Health System, breaching some patients’ Social Security numbers. 

Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital is notifying some of its research participants that some of their protected health information may have been posted to a public website. 

HHS is investigating Radius Global Solutions for a hacking/IT incident within its network server that has affected over 600,000 individuals.

As ransomware attacks are shutting down healthcare services across multiple states, hospital cybersecurity leaders told Becker’s that protecting healthcare from cyber threats requires total organizational buy-in.

One of the latest ways hackers are getting into hospital and health system IT networks is through “smishing,” or phishing via text messages, HHS reported Aug. 10.

The data breach toll due to a hacking incident at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine has increased from 5,500 people to 310,405, WBAL reported Aug. 10. 

Top executives aren’t immune to weak passwords that put the entire organization at risk for a cyberattack.