Category: cybersecurity

Software giant Microsoft received a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York that will allow the company to disrupt infrastructure used by ransomware gangs during hospital attacks.

Two health system IT leaders have been honored for cybersecurity excellence.

Two health system IT leaders have been honored for cybersecurity excellence.

A data breach can have a serious impact on a hospital’s financial and reputational well-being.

Telehealth company Cerebral is facing a lawsuit that accuses the company of installing tracking technologies on its website and app that led to the protected health information of more than 3 million patients to be sent to social media companies. 

Denison, Texas-based Texoma Medical Center is notifying patients that some of their protected health information was compromised when its consulting company Adelanto HealthCare Ventures was targeted by a phishing attack. 

Montgomery (W.Va.) General Hospital CEO Deborah Hill said the health system was hit with a ransomware attack on March 1, BankInfoSecurity reported April 4. 

Bowman, N.D.-based Southwest Healthcare Services is reporting a data breach that compromised personal information.

A ransomware group leaked patient and employee data from a West Virginia hospital after the organization didn’t meet its demands for ransom, DataBreaches.net reported.

Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare, which suffered an IT security incident in February, said the attack has compromised patients’ Social Security numbers, as well as treatment information.