Category: cybersecurity

Healthcare cybersecurity vendor Cynerio is partnering with Microsoft to integrate its cloud-based cybersecurity tools into Microsoft Sentinel. 

An unauthorized individual accessed an employee email account from Sparta (Ill.) Community Hospital District that contained some protected health information. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the health system let companies such as Google, Twitter and Microsoft intercept certain patient data, Bloomberg Law reported June 12.

At least four lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and parent company Point32Health from the fallout of an April ransomware attack, The HIPAA Journal reported June 13.

Healthcare revenue cycle management firm Intellihartx disclosed that 489,830 patients were affected by a third-party data breach involving a file transfer software called GoAnywhere from third-party vendor Fortra.

New York City-based Richmond University Medical Center has fully recovered from a ransomware attack that caused multiweek disruptions, silive.com reported June 12.

As hospitals face a vast array of cybersecurity threats, an effective working relationship between the chief information security officer and CIO becomes even more important. 

Two Idaho hospitals continue to recover two weeks after a cyberattack.

North Korea and China were listed as state actors that have been sponsoring hackers to target healthcare, according to a June 8 brief from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center. 

CVS Health’s retail clinic, MinuteClinic, received its sixth consecutive Ambulatory Health Care Accreditation from The Joint Commission.