Healthcare organizations face an uptick in cyber threats, as malicious actors turn to tools like ransomware, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) attacks. These threats are...
Spearheaded by United States Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Patty Murray (D-WA), and US Representative Sara Jacobs (D-CA), lawmakers sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Beccera urging the...
More than 1.2 million individuals were impacted by a data breach at Pension Benefit Information (PBI) stemming from the widespread cyberattacks waged against Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer...
Imagine360, a Pennsylvania-based provider of self-funded health plan solutions, alerted over 112,000 individuals about a third-party data breach from January 2023, which occurred on its Citrix...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) urged critical infrastructure entities to enhance monitoring of Microsoft Exchange Online...
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a brief regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and the threats it may pose to healthcare cybersecurity. As AI continues to advance,...
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) inspected the information security program at the Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System and discovered significant security...
The Biden-Harris Administration issued its National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP), which provides a detailed roadmap to achieving the National Cybersecurity Strategy. The...
AI chatbots, such as Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have sparked continuous conversation and controversy since they became available to the public. In the healthcare arena, patients...
MedCrypt, a cybersecurity solution provider for medical device manufacturers, announced a partnership with Kansas State University (KSU) to drive medical device security research. MedCrypt provided a...
Claroty’s Team82 and Check Point Research (CPR) discovered critical vulnerabilities in the QuickBlox software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API), a framework that...
Healthcare organizations are increasingly connecting devices to their networks to enable efficiency and aid in patient care. However, increased device connectivity exposes organizations to additional...
Global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe suffered a data breach involving more than 40,000 individuals. The data was originally in the firm’s possession because it was working on a case...
UPDATE 7/10/2023, 4:35 PM - This article was update to reflect the number of individuals impacted and to include commentary from a cybersecurity expert.
HCA Healthcare confirmed a data breach...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canadian Centre for...
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) issued a new publication, entitled “Health Industry Cybersecurity Coordinated Healthcare...
Kronos, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), agreed to pay $6 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over a 2021 data breach. The HR management solutions provider suffered a ransomware attack...
The latest string of reported healthcare data breaches impacted small and mid-sized healthcare organizations. Two of the three breaches mentioned below occurred in 2022.
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Approximately 559,000 individuals were impacted by a healthcare data breach at Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter (MMC), the Tennessee-based organization confirmed.
As previously reported,...
Strong authentication practices can help healthcare organizations mitigate breach risk and maintain compliance, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reminded covered entities in its June 2023...
