Category: cybersecurity

Healthcare data breaches are on the rise.  Here are three hospitals and health systems reporting cybersecurity incidents that have affected more than 1 million patients:

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital was hit with a cyberattack earlier this year and a “criminal group” stole 1.2 million patients’ confidential information, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

The MOVEit data breach, a hack that has touched millions of Americans across a variety of industries, has already claimed three health system victims. And more could be on the way.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare now faces at least five lawsuits in a massive data breach that affected as many as 11 million patients across 19 states, NewsChannel 5 reported.

Connected health devices could soon get a cybersecurity “seal of approval” under a new program from the Federal Communications Commission.

Lubbock, Texas-based UMC Health System will add AI-enabled gun detection software to its existing security systems in order to protect its patients from gun violence. 

Henry Ford Health notified 168,000 patients that a phishing scheme, conducted by an unauthorized party, may have compromised their protected health information. 

Information from 162,500 patients was affected in a hacking incident at Chandler, Ariz.-based Phoenician Medical Center.

Generative artificial intelligence and large language models topped the list of emerging and prominent threats to the healthcare industry, a new report found.

Eighty-one percent of Americans inaccurately assume that all health data protected on digital health platforms are also protected under HIPAA, according to a July 13 report from ClearData, an information services and technology platform.