Category: cybersecurity

Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System is notifying 15,246 patients that some of their personal health information may have been compromised due to a technical error that caused letters to be mailed to incorrect addresses. 

Rushville, Ill.-based Culbertson Memorial Hospital has fully restored its IT systems after a cyberattack forced the hospital to go offline, The Record reported April 11. 

Hospitals and health systems are falling behind in implementing better cybersecurity measures and will need to increase their investments in cybersecurity to better defend against attacks, an April 11 Moody’s report found. 

Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare said it has been affected by a third-party data breach that hit its parent company Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems. 

A lawsuit filed April 3 alleges that Dallas-based Steward Health Care System’s website used a Meta pixel tracking tool that sent some patient information to Meta and Google, Class Action reported April 10. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights said it has launched an investigation into a February IT security incident that occurred at Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare, WTXL Tallahassee reported April 10. 

HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center is warning healthcare organizations to look out for flood distributed-denial-of-service attacks that could shut down their websites.

A cyberattack disrupted the IT network of Rushville, Ill.-based Culbertson Memorial Hospital, WGEM reported.

Six hospitals in Alabama said they have been affected by a third-party data breach that hit its parent company Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, Al.com reported April 6. 

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health said many of its current and former Catholic Health Initiatives, Dignity Health, Centura Health and MercyOne facilities were affected by last year’s ransomware attack on the health system.