A data breach lawsuit against Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network was sent back to court after the health system said most of the affected patients lived in Pennsylvania, Law360 reported June 26. 

The Regents of the University of California are suing an insurer they say denied payment for a 2014 cyberattack on Los Angeles-based UCLA Health, ABC7 Los Angeles reported.

Information security analysts in New York have the highest average annual salary at $138,730, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

MetroHealth said it discovered that an employee was inappropriately accessing patient records since 2008, cleveland.com reported June 26. 

A recent study found the greater disruptions at nearby facilities grave enough to consider hospital ransomware attacks a "regional disaster," and the number of attacks are on track to increase in 2023, NPR reported June 25.

Unauthorized network access at Kannact, a digital health company, led to a data breach affecting 103,547 individuals, SC Media reported June 25.

Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health System is notifying patients and employees that some of their protected health information may have been compromised during a cyberattack, ABC13 reported June 23. 

The rise in hospital and health system cyberattacks is adding to the financial pressures many organizations are still facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reported June 23. 

Hospital billing company IntelliHARTx, or iTx, is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly failing to safeguard patients' protected health information after a January breach at its organization affected multiple health systems. 

Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based SoutheastHealth may have had some of its patients' protected health information compromised due to it being caught up in the Fortra data breach, which has affected multiple health systems, KFVS12 reported June 21. 

Cybercriminal gang BlackCat has threatened to release stolen plastic surgery photos unless its demands for ransom are met, The Daily Dot reported.

Patient and employee protected health information from Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare has been posted on the dark web after the organization was hit with a cyber event on May 9, WDRB reported June 22. 

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center is warning hospitals about the threat posed by search engine optimization poisoning, a tactic used by cybercriminals to alter search engine results. 

Andrew Coyne, chief information security officer of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, said his organization is continuing to build a proactive cybersecurity program by employing a team to monitor threats happening outside of healthcare, and by building IT systems with architecture and design that lacks vulnerabilities.  

CoxHealth, based in Springfield, Mo., may have had some of its patients' protected health information compromised due to it being caught up in the Fortra data breach, which has affected multiple health systems, KY3 reported June 21. 

An Ohio medical center has been caught up in the Fortra data breach that has affected multiple health systems, The Blade reported.

Several hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are facing lawsuits regarding data breach incidents that involved patients' protected health information. 

Good Samaritan Hospital, based in San Jose, Calif., has paid an "undisclosed amount" to settle claims that the health system failed to prevent a June and July 2020 data breach that compromised patients' protected health information, Top Class Actions reported June 16.

The cost of ransomware per incident has doubled in the past two years to $26,000, according to Verizon's 2023 data breach investigations report.

The Justice Department has charged Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov on allegations of deploying LockBit ransomware on computer systems in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Africa.