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Killnet possibly behind the website crashes of 9 Danish hospitals
Russian hacking group Killnet, which disrupted hospital and health system websites across the U.S. in February, might be behind an attack on nine Danish hospitals, The Register reported Feb. 28. -
Anonymous call informs Virginia hospital of data breach
An anonymous individual called Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare to notify the hospital that a PDF copy of a Medicare remittance report for Sentara's lab services was uploaded to an Adobe Acrobat website. -
Cyberattack 'credit negative' for Tallahassee Memorial, Moody's says
The February cyberattack on Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare will be "credit negative" for the health system, Moody's said in a Feb. 27 report. -
Can AI overcome healthcare's cybersecurity hurdles? 3 experts weigh in
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used for years to help hospitals and health systems combat cybersecurity threats, but with hackers getting more sophisticated, chief information security officers say AI will need to make improvements to its algorithms and training sets to become vital tools for hospitals information security programs. -
Texas surgical hospital facing lawsuit for July data breach
A lawsuit alleges that Lubbock (Texas) Heart & Surgical Hospital had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a July data breach compromised the protected health information of 23,379 current and former patients, Class Action reported Feb. 24. -
Six lawsuits filed against New Jersey hospital
Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center has been hit with five more class-action lawsuits over a December cyberattack that affected nearly 618,000 patients, bringing the total to six, New Jersey Law Journal reported. -
Lawsuits filed over ransomware attack affecting 3.3 million patients
Los Angeles-based Regal Medical Group and its affiliates are facing multiple lawsuits over a ransomware attack that affected 3.3 million of their patients, HIPAA Journal reported. -
Arkansas health system faces lawsuit regarding its November data breach
A lawsuit alleges that Mena Regional Health System had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a November data breach compromised the protected health information of 84,814 people. -
Providence's pivotal move for cybersecurity operations
Providence is building a global IT enterprise by employing thousands of people in Hyderabad, India, to support the U.S.-based operations for multiple functions, including cybersecurity. -
Clop ransomware gang targeting US healthcare, HHS warns
Russian-backed ransomware gang Clop poses a major threat to the healthcare and public health sector as it has allegedly attacked Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center wrote in its Feb. 22 brief. -
Ransomware gang posts Los Angeles students' health records on dark web
The Los Angeles School District is admitting that Russian-speaking ransomware gang Vice Society published the psychological records of 2,000 students, including 60 current students, to the dark web, The 74 reported Feb. 23. -
94% of chief information security officers suffer from work-related stress: Survey
A report from cybersecurity company Cynet found that 94 percent of chief information security officers suffer from work-related stress, with 65 percent saying the stress compromises their ability to protect their organizations from attacks. -
HIPAA breaches down, compliance is up, OCR reports
HIPAA-covered organizations reported 609 breaches in 2021, down 7 percent from 2020, according to a new report from the HHS' Office for Civil Rights. -
HCA Florida Capital Hospital saw 'more patients than the pandemic' during Tallahassee IT incident
Tallahassee, Fla.-based HCA Florida Capital Hospital served a record number of patients during the Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare IT security incident. -
New Jersey hospital facing lawsuit for data breach that affected 671K patients
Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center is facing a lawsuit for a December ransomware attack that compromised the protected health information of 671,000 patients, nj.com reported Feb. 20. -
59.7M patient records were breached in 2022: 7 things to know
In 2022, the number of patient records breached increased by 18 percent compared to 2021 to 59.7 million, according to a new report from healthcare analytics company Protenus Breach Barometer. -
Health systems affected by data breaches in the last 30 days
From employee insider breaches to an anonymous call informing a health system of a data breach, here are the health systems that have been affected by a cybersecurity or data breach incident since Feb. 28: -
Lehigh Valley Health Network attacked by Russian ransomware gang
Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network said it was attacked by Russian ransomware gang BlackCat, The (Allentown) Morning Call reported Feb. 20. -
Tennessee health system reports RCM vendor data breach
Memphis, Tenn.-based Regional One Health is notifying patients that some of their confidential information may have been compromised in a data breach that affected its revenue cycle management vendor Reventics. -
KillNet, Clop + more ransomware groups targeting healthcare organizations
HHS, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI have urged healthcare organizations to take certain actions to protect their systems from hacker groups that have been known to create cyberespionage campaigns aimed at stealing data from hospitals and health systems.
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