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Pittsburgh-based UPMC St. Margaret began notifying patients March 5 that their protected health information had been exposed by a former hospital employee who wrongfully shared medication administration data with an…

When Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services in Gallup, New Mexico, was hit with a cyberattack earlier this year, the hospital’s staff had to revert to pen and paper to…

The ransomware attack that resulted in EHR outages at all 400 Universal Healthcare Services’ care sites for about three weeks last year, resulted in about $67 million in lost operating…

The protected health information of 29,982 patients of a Laguna Hills, CA-based provider of medical and surgical eye care services has potentially been stolen in a cyberattack on its online…

Two more healthcare providers have suffered ransomware attacks in which sensitive information was exfiltrated and leaked online when the ransom was not paid.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services announces its sixteenth settlement of an enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative….

A ransomware attack that struck Nebraska Medicine in the Fall potentially led to the data theft and compromise of information from 219,000 patients.

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services announces its fifteenth settlement of an enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative….

A security researcher on Monday said the recent ransomware attacks on hospital chains in Florida and Texas are tied to the Conti ransomware gang.

Hackers have published extensive patient information from two US hospital chains in an apparent attempt to extort them for money.