Category: cybersecurity

Mississippi health system, clinics still reeling from cybersecurity incident

Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System, its three hospitals and its medical clinics are still resorting to paper records as the organization was forced to take its systems offline due to a cyberattack, BankInfoSecurity reported Aug. 24….

Connecticut hospital nurse says ransomware attack has affected payroll

A Eastern Connecticut Health Network nurse says staff are doing their best to make sense of their paychecks as their systems are still down due to a ransomware attack that started Aug. 3, WFSB reported Aug. 24. 

Ransomware gang reportedly selling Prospect Medical patient data

A ransomware gang is auctioning off Social Security numbers, passport information and health data from more than 500,000 patients and employees of Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings, CyberNews reported Aug. 24.

Hospitals, health systems experiencing cybersecurity incidents

Here are seven hospitals and health systems dealing with cyberattacks Becker’s has reported on since Aug. 9:

Appeals court rejects data privacy lawsuit against UChicago Medicine, Google

A federal appeals court has rejected a class-action lawsuit against University of Chicago Medicine and Google that claimed their predictive analytics partnership violated patient privacy.

Tampa General faces 3 data breach lawsuits

Tampa (Fla.) General is facing three lawsuits for a May 31 data breach that affected 1.2 million patients, Florida Record reported Aug. 22. 

How much health systems are paying to settle Pixel lawsuits

Hospitals and health systems around the country are being sued for their use of the Meta Pixel, which plaintiffs say shared their protected health information with the tech giant, allowing it to tailor ads based on their medical conditions.

40 million patients affected by healthcare data breaches in first half of 2023

A report from cybersecurity vendor Critical Insight found that 40 million patients’ medical information has been involved in data breaches so far this year; at this rate, 2023 will break the record for most individuals affected in breaches.

Systems taken offline at Mississippi health system due to cyberattack

Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System has taken some of its internal systems offline as it deals with a cyberattack. 

Healthcare data breach lawsuits on the rise

The monthly average of class-action lawsuits filed over health data breaches has nearly doubled since 2022, Bloomberg Law reported Aug. 22.