The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights said it has launched an investigation into a February IT security incident that occurred at Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare, WTXL Tallahassee reported April 10. 

HHS' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center is warning healthcare organizations to look out for flood distributed-denial-of-service attacks that could shut down their websites.

A cyberattack disrupted the IT network of Rushville, Ill.-based Culbertson Memorial Hospital, WGEM reported.

Six hospitals in Alabama said they have been affected by a third-party data breach that hit its parent company Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, Al.com reported April 6. 

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health said many of its current and former Catholic Health Initiatives, Centura Health and MercyOne facilities were affected by last year's ransomware attack on the health system.

Software giant Microsoft received a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York that will allow the company to disrupt infrastructure used by ransomware gangs during hospital attacks.

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an analysis of the pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet.

Two health system IT leaders have been honored for cybersecurity excellence.

Hospitals and health systems around the country have been accused of sharing confidential patient information with social media giants such as Meta, Facebook and Google. Here are the three hospitals and health systems that disclosed that its tracking technologies led to protected health information of patients to be compromised: 

A data breach can have a serious impact on a hospital's financial and reputational well-being.

Telehealth company Cerebral is facing a lawsuit that accuses the company of installing tracking technologies on its website and app that led to the protected health information of more than 3 million patients to be sent to social media companies. 

Denison, Texas-based Texoma Medical Center is notifying patients that some of their protected health information was compromised when its consulting company Adelanto HealthCare Ventures was targeted by a phishing attack. 

Montgomery (W.Va.) General Hospital CEO Deborah Hill said the health system was hit with a ransomware attack on March 1, BankInfoSecurity reported April 4. 

Bowman, N.D.-based Southwest Healthcare Services is reporting a data breach that compromised personal information.

A ransomware group leaked patient and employee data from a West Virginia hospital after the organization didn't meet its demands for ransom, DataBreaches.net reported.

Mergers and acquisitions are part and parcel of the hospital business. For chief information security officers, they can present new cybersecurity concerns. 

Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare, which suffered an IT security incident in February, said the attack has compromised patients' Social Security numbers, as well as treatment information. 

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital disclosed that its website used analytics tracking technology that resulted in the personal health information of 54,396 patients to be disclosed to its third-party technology service providers.

Smaller health systems are especially prone to cyberattacks because their networks tend to be easier for hackers to access, according to a presentation by Microsoft cybersecurity leaders reported on by Chief Healthcare Executive.

Amarillo-based Northwest Texas Healthcare System is notifying patients that some of their protected health information was compromised when its consulting company Adelanto HealthCare Ventures was targeted by a phishing attack.