Budget and capability constraints are contributing to persisting supply chain risk management challenges across the healthcare sector, a new survey conducted by Ponemon Institute on behalf of the...
Consulate Healthcare, which operates 140 nursing homes across the United States, began notifying an undetermined number of individuals of a third-party vendor data breach.
According to the notice on...
Cybersecurity leaders are buckling up for rising costs, a challenging talent shortage, and uncertain data breach reporting requirements going into 2023, according to a Deepwatch Q4 2022 SecOps...
Email security breaches continue to lead to compromised protected health information (PHI) and widespread breach notifications, as exemplified by the three recently-reported breaches detailed...
CentraState Healthcare System in New Jersey is experiencing an IT network issue that is impacting some of its patient services. The issue began on December 29.
Tom Scott, president and CEO of...
Although the group has been active since 2019, Clop ransomware appears to be shifting its tactics in ways that pose direct threats to the healthcare sector, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination...
The number of healthcare ransomware attacks more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, from 43 in 2016 to 91 in 2021, according to a study published recently in JAMA Health Forum.
The cohort study relied on...
Avalon Healthcare Management and Morley Companies each reached healthcare data breach settlements recently following large-scale data breaches. Lawsuits and state-level enforcement actions in the...
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Georgia-based Life Hope Labs following a potential HIPAA right of access violation. Life Hope Labs, a full-service diagnostic lab in Sandy...
Arkansas-based Howard Memorial Hospital (HMH) began notifying patients of a healthcare data breach. On December 4, HMH discovered the suspicious activity and “allegations made by an unknown actor...
In late December, Louisiana-based Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) began notifying 269,752 individuals of a healthcare data breach. According to the notice, the breach occurred between...
Scripps Health in San Diego reached a $3.5 million proposed settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit stemming from a May 2021 ransomware attack and subsequent breach that impacted 2.1 million...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an analyst note about KillNet, a pro-Russian hacktivist group that is known to be a threat to the US healthcare sector. The group has...
MultiCare Health System in Washington suffered a third-party data breach that originated at its mailing service provider, Kaye-Smith. As previously reported, the breach at Kaye-Smith impacted other...
Oklahoma-based Avem Health Partners, which provides administrative and technology services to healthcare organizations, notified 271,303 individuals of a healthcare data breach that occurred at 365...
HITRUST plans to release version 11 of its cybersecurity framework (CSF) in January with new and improved features for managing emerging cybersecurity threats and reducing certification efforts, the...
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees released the text of an omnibus appropriations bill that would keep the government funded through September 30, 2023. The document is more than 4,000...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has signed an executive order aiming to protect infrastructure organizations from the overall increase in cybersecurity threats.
Led by the Secretary of the...
Citrix released patches for a critical zero-day cybersecurity vulnerability (CVE-2022-27518) in its Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway platforms.
HHS knows of healthcare entities that...
Georgia-based Emory Healthcare reported a healthcare data breach that impacted more than 1,000 individuals and potentially exposed protected health information (PHI).
Through a notice from the United...
