Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings has restored its IT systems nearly six weeks after a cyberattack knocked them offline.
Category: cybersecurity
Feds warn of new ransomware group targeting hospitals
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) is warning healthcare organizations of Akira, a newer ransomware group that has been targeting healthcare organizations.
Man charged in connection with Scripps Health ransomware attack
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of California has charged a man in connection to the May 1, 2021, San Diego-based Scripps Health ransomware attack that affected 1.2 million patients.
Pennsylvania health system CISO looks to launch ransomware board game
Aaron Weismann, the chief information security officer of Radnor Township, Penn.-based Main Line Health, is looking to launch Guardians of the Grid, a ransomware board game that simulates a cyberattack.
Pennsylvania health system CISO looks to launch ransomware board game
Aaron Weismann, the chief information security officer of Radnor Township, Penn.-based Main Line Health, is looking to launch Guardians of the Grid, a ransomware board game that simulates a cyberattack.
Prospect Medical unsure if patient data was breached in attack
Lawyers representing Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings told the state attorney general’s office that the organization is unsure if patients’ protected health information was compromised from an Aug. 3 cyberattack, Hartford Business Jo…
Ransomware group claims responsibility for 2 hospital cyberattacks
Rhysida ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks on Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings and Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System, Security Affairs reported Sept. 10.
Growth in cyberattacks puts patients at risk, AHA says
A record number of cyberattacks in 2023 is putting patients at risk as attackers knock out services, according to John Riggi, national advisor for the American Hospital Association, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 7.
Tennessee hospital pays $1.5M to resolve data breach lawsuit
Knoxville-based East Tennessee Children’s Hospital agreed to pay $1.55 million to resolve claims that it failed to protect patient information in a March 2022 data breach, Top Class Actions reported Sept. 7.
1,500 Avera Health patients affected by vendor breach
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health’s imaging vendor, DMS Health Technologies, experienced a cybersecurity event that affected 1,500 of the health system’s patients, KELO reported Sept. 6.
