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...
An uptick in cyberattacks across critical infrastructure organizations is causing organization leaders to bolster their security postures, going beyond basic perimeter security.
Healthcare...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a HIPAA right of access settlement with Health Specialists of Central Florida. The primary care practice paid OCR $20,000 to resolve the potential HIPAA...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a settlement with California-based New Vision Dental (NVD), over a potential HIPAA violation. The practice paid OCR $23,000 and agreed to implement a...
UPDATE 12/16/2022 - This article has been updated to include a statement from Healthcare Management Solutions.
A third-party data breach potentially impacted the protected health information...
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued two new analyst notes detailing the tactics and indicators of compromise for LockBit 3.0 and BlackCat. The LockBit ransomware family...
Organization executives are doubling down on investments toward cybersecurity reliance as an uptick in data security breaches jeopardizes business operations and overwhelms industries, including the...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) provided their feedback on Senator Mark R....
San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital in Banning, California notified patients of a recent healthcare data breach. The hospital discovered that an unauthorized party had gained access to its network between...
CareFirst Administrators (CFA) notified 14,538 individuals of a phishing scam that occurred at Conifer Revenue Cycle Solutions, a provider of revenue cycle management services to healthcare...
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued a detailed brief regarding automation and its impacts on healthcare cybersecurity and beyond.
HC3 defined automation as “[t]he...
Security is a top priority for HIT vendors when it comes to public cloud adoption, KLAS found. For its 2022 report, KLAS surveyed senior IT leaders from 44 HIT software vendors, all of which are...
Conway Regional Medical Center in Arkansas agreed to pay $295,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a 2019 healthcare data breach. In June 2019, Conway fell victim to a phishing scheme resulting in the...
A new analyst note from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) shed light on Royal ransomware, a human-operated ransomware variant first observed in September 2022.
“Due to...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and HHS updated their Mobile Health App Interactive Tool, designed to help mobile health app developers understand which data privacy laws apply to their apps.
The...
Hospitals and healthcare systems have implemented the necessary steps to protect patients and defend their networks from cyberattacks, but they need future support through cybersecurity policies to...
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As organizations continue to digitally transform their ecosystems to enable new operations and care delivery models, healthcare cybersecurity concerns must remain top-of-mind.
During a...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn critical infrastructure organizations of...
Following a ransomware attack that had varying impacts across CommonSpirit Health facilities, the health system has issued a breach notice to patients of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Washington...
Medical device security continues to be an issue for healthcare organizations, especially as the threat of cyberattacks increases in the industry.
The medical internet of things (IoT) has...
