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Kalispell Regional Healthcare (KRH) is mailing letters to nearly 130,000 patients whose personal information may have been involved in a data breach over the summer.

For several years, industry stakeholders have been making the case for a unique patient identifier to improve patient safety through the correct identification of individuals at the point of care.

After reviewing hundreds of millions of malicious emails from the past two years, healthcare security firm Proofpoint has gained some hard-won insights into the tricks and strategies of bad who…

A public-data tool built by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to track the prevalence of hepatitis infections left individuals’ health records accessible, compromising the names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…

The Omaha, NE-based 14-hospital health system, CHI Health, has experienced a ransomware attack in which the protected health information of approximately 48,000 patients has potentially been compromised. 

In June 2019, Gary, Indiana-based Methodist Hospitals discovered an unauthorized individual had gained access to the email account of one of its employees following the detection of suspicious activity in…

The DCH Hospital system in west central Alabama may be accepting new patients as soon as Monday after resolving a ransomware attack. 

This Public Service Announcement (PSA) is an update and companion to Ransomware PSA I-091516-PSA posted on www.ic3.gov. This PSA contains updated information about the ransomware threat. Ransomware attacks are becoming…

All three Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based DCH Health System hospitals are temporarily closed to new patients due to a targeted Oct. 1 ransomware attack.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is informing patients, healthcare professionals, IT staff in healthcare facilities and manufacturers of a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, referred to as “URGENT/11,” that—if exploited…