Data breach
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Tampa General Hospital CEO on Change Healthcare Breach: They Are Going To Have To Give an Update Soon
In an interview at the Vive conference in Los Angeles, John Couris said that while he is sympathetic toward Change Healthcare’s current woes, he wants definitive answers soon.
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Hospitals Still Struggling to Get Back Online 4 Days After Cyberattack on Prospect Medical Holdings
Hospitals and outpatient treatment centers in at least three states are struggling to get their systems back online following a ransomware attack waged last week against parent company Prospect Medical Holdings. Some of these facilities have partially or completely halted patient care.
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6 Ways Providers Can Better Manage 3rd-Party Cybersecurity Risks
The Health3PT Initiative recently released recommendations on how providers can better address the cybersecurity risks linked to their third party reliance. Some of the group’s recommendations included ensuring that contract language ties financial terms to a vendor’s data management transparency and establishing metrics and reporting requirements for organization-wide vendor risks.
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1,000+ Facilities Impacted by HCA Data Breach
HCA Healthcare recently suffered a data breach affecting 1,038 hospitals and physician clinics across 20 states. The health system said hackers stole data from an external data storage location “exclusively used to automate the formatting of email messages.” It also said that the incident has not caused any disruption to HCA’s daily operations or the services it provides to patients.
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Providers Should Beware of Ransomware Gang Clop & The Latest Software Vulnerability It’s Targeting
Clop, a Russian ransomware gang known for going after healthcare providers, has been recently exploiting a software vulnerability called MOVEit. Johns Hopkins University and its health system were recently victims of a data breach caused by hackers targeting this vulnerability, as was Texas-based Harris Health System.
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Feds Warn Healthcare Providers About ‘Obscure’ Ransomware Gang
HC3 recently warned healthcare providers about a “relatively unknown” ransomware gang named TimisoaraHackerTeam. The group leverages legitimate software tools like Microsoft’s BitLocker and Jetico’s BestCrypt to deliver its malware.
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Federal Agencies Release New Guidelines to Help Providers Fend Off Ransomware
A group of federal agencies recently released an updated set of guidelines to help healthcare organizations protect themselves from ransomware attacks and the data breaches that often follow. The guidance lays out best practices to prevent the six major ways that bad actors gain access to providers’ systems, which include compromised credentials and phishing.
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Healthcare’s Recent Cybercriminal Activity Attributed to Ransomware Gangs Cl0p & LockBit
Federal officials are sounding the alarm on two ransomware groups that are actively targeting the healthcare sector: Cl0p and LockBit. In recent months, the groups have been exploiting three known software vulnerabilities in cyberattacks they have waged against healthcare businesses across the country.
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Cerebral Admits That it Wrongly Shared Data of 3.1M Users
Cerebral recently notified 3.1 million of its users that their private health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google and TikTok. The data breach stemmed from Cerebral’s use of pixel tracking technology, which the company said has been discontinued or reconfigured.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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BlackCat Ransomware Gang Hits NextGen Healthcare, Becomes Even More Formidable Threat
Ransomware group BlackCat has been targeting healthcare organizations in recent months, and it just went after NextGen Healthcare. Healthcare organizations would be wise to enhance their cybersecurity strategy in defense against BlackCat, as it is “one of the more adaptable ransomware operations in the world,” according to HHS.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Legal, SYN
How Much of a Risk Is a Potential Class-action Lawsuit against CommonSpirit?
CommonSpirit Health is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit over a ransomware attack it suffered last fall that exposed 623,774 patients’ personal data. However, hospitals’ data breach lawsuits usually never make it court, a legal expert said.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
It doesn’t pay to pay a ransom – especially in healthcare
While you may rid yourself of one attacker by meeting their demands, you send a sign to threat actors around the world that you are willing to negotiate.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
As healthcare moves online, providers must step up security practices
As data breaches increase in size, and as large organizations demonstrate their willingness to pay ransom, it only becomes a matter of time before more healthcare organizations are the subject of a coordinated attack.
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Report: First half of 2021 sees massive spike in number of data breach victims
Provider organizations accounted for 73% of all data breaches reported to the HHS in the first six months of 2021, impacting about 22.7 million individuals overall, a new report shows. This represents a 185% jump in individuals affected compared to the same period last year.