PACS News and Resources for Healthcare

Allergy Partners: Data Stolen During Ransomware Attack, EHR Outage

May 18, 2021 - Following reports of a ransomware attack and subsequent EHR outage at Allergy Partners in February, the North Carolina specialist is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that their data was exfiltrated during the security event. As previously reported in March, the FBI was tasked with investigating a cyberattack on Allergy Partners...

PACS Vulnerability of Orthopedic Specialist Exposes Data From 28K

March 30, 2021 by Jessica Davis

Mendelson Kornblum Orthopedic and Spine Specialists recently notified more than 28,000 patients that their data was exposed due to a vulnerability in its Picture Archiving and Communication Systems...

CISA: HPH Cyber Threat Insights, Ransomware Reduction Campaign

January 25, 2021 by Jessica Davis

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently unveiled a campaign designed to tackle ransomware risks and threats across the US. Earlier, CISA shared...

NIST Shares Best Practice Security Guidance for Vulnerable PACS

December 30, 2020 by Jessica Davis

The Office for Civil Rights is urging healthcare organizations to review recently released NIST cybersecurity guidance for Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The best practice insights...

Millions of Medical Images Exposed, as US Fails to Secure PACS Flaws

November 19, 2020 by Jessica Davis

In the Fall of 2019, a damning report from ProPublica outlined a massive healthcare exposure: millions of medical images generated from Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) were left...

Search Engines May Expose Patient Health Information, ACR warns

August 24, 2020 by Jessica Davis

New search engine capabilities may inadvertently expose patient identifiers and other protected health information, according to a warning from the American College of Radiology...

Number of Exposed PACS Medical Images Increasing, US Biggest Culprit

November 19, 2019 by Jessica Davis

A 60-day update on the number of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) images left unprotected online has found a 60 percent increase in exposed medical data, to about 1.19 billion images,...