Category: cybersecurity

Here are 10 hospitals and health systems dealing with cybersecurity events, data breaches and cyberattacks as reported by Becker’s since May 16:

Amazon’s PillPack is notifying consumers that an unauthorized person took customer emails and passwords to log into 19,032 PillPack accounts.

The CEO who had to shut down his Tennessee medical center to deal with a cyberattack said it was one the hardest things he’s ever had to do in healthcare, WKRN reported.

A North Carolina radiology group is suing its cyber insurance carrier after its coverage lapsed two days before it suffered a ransomware attack, The Wall Street Journal reported May 18.

Northwest Health-La Porte (Ind.) filed a data breach notice on May 2 disclosing that patient records were illegally removed from shredding bins at one of its old facilities, JD Supra reported May 18. 

Columbia, Mo.-based University of Missouri Health Care learned that an employee had been inappropriately accessing patient electronic health records between July 2021 and March 2023.  

Edinburg-based South Texas Health System is notifying patients that some of their protected health information may have been compromised when an unauthorized party accessed a business associate’s email account using a phishing tactic.

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has started notifying patients affected by a February ransomware attack.

Microsoft and software company Qualtrics are facing a patient-led lawsuit that alleges that the company’s online analytics technologies violates health privacy protection laws, according to a May 15 lawsuit obtained by Becker’s.

UMass Memorial Medical Center has paid $1.2 million to settle a March 2022 lawsuit regarding a data breach of its payroll management system Kronos, Telegram & Gazette reported May 16.