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....
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...
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...
Both Humana and Anthem began notifying members that their protected health information (PHI) had been exposed following a ransomware attack on billing and IT solutions vendor PracticeMax.
Humana and...
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...
New cyber threats are constantly emerging, leaving organizations vulnerable to healthcare protected health information (PHI) breaches, ransomware, and unauthorized access incidents.
Recent data...
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...
As COVID-19 continues to overwhelm providers across the country, cybercriminals are increasingly targeting smaller facilities with sophisticated healthcare ransomware attacks that cause EHR downtime...
UC San Diego Health is facing a lawsuit after a healthcare data breach spanning from December 2020 to April 2021 impacted almost 500,000 individuals. Lawyers filed the suit in San Diego federal court...
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) began notifying Alaska residents about a May 2021 cyberattack that impacted an unknown number of Alaskans and may have exposed protected...
Recent data breaches continue to show the growing prevalence of Hive ransomware and other hacking groups as they continue to infiltrate the networks of US healthcare providers.
High-profile...
HealthReach Community Health Centers in Waterville, Maine, began notifying over 100,000 patients of a health data breach that resulted from improper disposal of hard drives. The hard drives were...
Two class action lawsuits were filed against St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) alleging that the large Georgia health system was negligent in preventing a December 2020 ransomware attack that went...
Over 61 million fitness tracker records from both Apple and Fitbit were exposed online in a recent wearable device data breach, according to a report from WebsitePlanet and independent cybersecurity...