NIST Drafts Major Update to Its Widely Used Cybersecurity Framework
The world’s leading cybersecurity guidance is getting its first complete makeover since its release nearly a decade ago. After considering more than a year’s worth of community feedback, the National…
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Ongoing Cyberattack on Prospect Medical Holdings Forces Facilities Offline, Disrupts Services
Prospect Medical Holdings was hit with a cyberattack last week that brought computer systems offline and continues to disrupt care in certain areas.
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Ransomware Cyberattack Disrupts Hospitals and Clinics in Pennsylvania, Four Other States
A ransomware cyberattack disrupted operations at four Pennsylvania healthcare facilities late last week. The attack targeted the computer networks of Prospect Medical Holdings and forced several clinics and hospital emergency…
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95% of Patients are Worried about Medical Record Breaches
Given the number of healthcare data breaches that are now being reported it is no surprise that patients are concerned that their sensitive health information will be obtained by cybercriminals…
Read More »IBM: Average Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach Increases to Almost $11 Million
The 2023 IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report shows the average data breach cost has increased to $4.45 million ($165 per record), with data breaches in the United…
Read More »Florida Patients among Victims of Spate of Data Hacking
A criminal group now being pursued by the FBI had access to Tampa General Hospital’s computer system for three weeks, but its attempt to encrypt and ransom the hospital’s data…
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CMS Responding to Data Breach at Contractor
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have responded to a May 2023 data breach in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer…
Read More »HHS OCR and FTC Warn Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers about Online Tracking Technology Risks
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are cautioning hospitals and telehealth providers about the privacy and…
Read More »HCA Now Faces at Least 5 Lawsuits in Huge Data Breach
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare now faces at least five lawsuits in a massive data breach that affected as many as 11 million patients across 19 states, NewsChannel 5 reported.
Read More »Naked Patient Photos Published after Ransomware Attack on Plastic Surgery Clinic
Legal counsel for the Hollywood, CA-based plastic surgeon, Gary Motykie, MD, recently notified patients about a cyberattack and data theft incident.
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