Category: cybersecurity

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems said about 1 million of its patients may have been affected by a recent data breach.

The FBI says healthcare suffered more ransomware attacks than any other industry in 2022, though the agency may have helped stop more, BankInfoSecurity reported 

Russian hacking group Killnet, which disrupted hospital and health system websites across the U.S. in February, might be behind an attack on nine Danish hospitals, The Register reported Feb. 28. 

An anonymous individual called Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare to notify the hospital that a PDF copy of a Medicare remittance report for Sentara’s lab services was uploaded to an Adobe Acrobat website. 

The February cyberattack on Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare will be “credit negative” for the health system, Moody’s said in a Feb. 27 report.

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A lawsuit alleges that Lubbock (Texas) Heart & Surgical Hospital had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a July data breach compromised the protected health information of 23,379 current and former patients, Class Action reported Feb. 24.

Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center has been hit with five more class-action lawsuits over a December cyberattack that affected nearly 618,000 patients, bringing the total to six, New Jersey Law Journal reported.

Los Angeles-based Regal Medical Group and its affiliates are facing multiple lawsuits over a ransomware attack that affected 3.3 million of their patients, HIPAA Journal reported.

A lawsuit alleges that Mena Regional Health System had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a November data breach compromised the protected health information of 84,814 people.