Category: cybersecurity

Data theft from an external storage location affected Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare hospitals across 19 states.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and Health System are facing a patient-led lawsuit that alleges the health system failed to protect patients’ health information when it was compromised due to a ransomware attack on a software vulnerability cal…

The number of people caught up in healthcare data breaches this year is already approaching 2022 levels, Politico reported July 10.

A data breach at Asheville, N.C.-based Charles George VA Medical Center has compromised the protected health information of 1,541 patients, Fox Carolina reported July 9. 

After a small drop in ransomware attacks early in 2023, hospitals have recently been experiencing more of the hacks, Chief Healthcare Executive reported July 10.

As hospitals and health systems continue to grapple with a rise in ransomware attacks and cybersecurity labor shortages, organizations must think outside the box and find people that they can train into cybersecurity professionals, Greg Garneau, chief …

An unauthorized party stole patient data from Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and posted it to an online forum. 

Hospitals and health systems whose providers use ChatGPT could be opening themselves up to HIPAA violations and lawsuits if they are not careful with patient data, two health policy experts wrote in JAMA.

Wilmington, Del.-based Henrietta Johnson Medical Center’s EHR vendor, Delaware Health Net, suffered a cyber event that has compromised patients’ protected health information at its organization. 

Hospitals and health systems should be on the lookout for a cybersecurity vulnerability affecting a Medtronic cardiac device, the American Hospital Association warned July 6.