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….
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.