Healthcare cyberattacks continue to overwhelm the sector as the end of the year approaches. At the time of publication, one Ohio hospital is facing ongoing EHR downtime and appointment cancelations as...
Two New Jersey-based printing companies agreed to pay a fine of $130,000 for potentially committing HIPAA violations and New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act (CFA) violations through protected health...
Ongoing EHR downtime at Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) is causing continued appointment cancelations on Monday, November 15. The medical center first alerted patients to “unplanned downtime...
Unidentified hackers breached at least nine organizations in the energy, technology, education, defense, and healthcare sectors in a large-scale cyber espionage attack, Palo Alto Networks discovered,...
An EHR vendor began notifying its clients of a data breach that may have exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of nearly 320,000 individuals....
In a survey of over 4,700 executives across a variety of industries including healthcare, Accenture discovered that more than half of large companies are not effectively stopping cyberattacks, finding...
Philips disclosed two security vulnerabilities in its TASY EMR HTML5 system in a recent advisory that may allow for patient data exposure. If exploited, unauthorized users could potentially exfiltrate...
Holiday ransomware attacks, compromised medical records, and network outages continue to overwhelm healthcare organizations.
Despite an increase in cyber threats, recent research suggested that 42...
Two Texas hospitals, Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital and Lavaca Medical Center began notifying patients of recent cyberattacks that exposed protected health information (PHI).
Throckmorton...
UPDATE 11/8/21: Docket confirmed that only one individual was able to successfully reverse engineer its API to exploit the vulnerability, and "less than a handful of QR codes were inappropriately...
Unlike other threat actors that shy away from deploying ransomware on critical infrastructure, education, and healthcare, FIN12 ransomware group specializes in targeted attacks on the healthcare sector.
Nearly 20 percent of threat...
Health data breaches continue to plague the healthcare sector, leading to EHR downtime and patient data leaks. While ransomware and phishing are obvious threats to the healthcare sector, instances of...
A Michigan man was sentenced to a total of 84 months of incarceration for hacking the human resources databases of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and stealing the personally...
Hospitals and health systems continue to face an overwhelming amount of cyberattacks, spoofing and phishing incidents, and breaches resulting from unauthorized email access.
Threat actors such as...
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released an analyst note outlining the top 10 global and US ransomware threat actors in Q3 2021 who are targeting the healthcare sector....
New cyber threats are constantly emerging, leaving organizations vulnerable to healthcare protected health information (PHI) breaches, ransomware, and unauthorized access incidents.
Recent data...
Nearly 20 percent of FIN12 ransomware group’s cyberattacks were targeted at the healthcare sector, and over 70 percent of attacks were targeted at US-based entities, a new report from Mandiant...
McAfee’s quarterly cyber threat report revealed troubling statistics about the current state of ransomware, showing that 73 percent of ransomware detections in Q2 2021 were credited to the...
Three Indiana healthcare providers suffered unrelated healthcare data breaches recently, again signaling an increase in cyberattacks and data breaches across the nation.
Eskenazi Health in Indiana...
Indiana-based Johnson Memorial Health announced that it fell victim to a healthcare cyberattack on Saturday, October 2. The health system’s computer network is still down and the FBI is...
