Change Healthcare officials projected that the company's massive February cyberattack affected one-third of the American population. So why did the IT services provider's HIPAA breach report to federal regulators lowball the initial estimate, saying the cyberattack only affected 500 people?
A Florida-based blood donation center is urging hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern U.S. to activate critical blood shortage protocols as the nonprofit organization deals with a ransomware attack that's disrupting its blood collection, inventory and related processes.
A federal judge has dismissed several claims but has given the green light for plaintiffs to move forward with other allegations in a proposed class action filed against electronic health records vendor NextGen in the aftermath of a 2023 ransomware attack that affected about 1 million people.
Millions of Americans will soon receive a breach notification letter from Change Healthcare, which said on Monday that it has started the process of notifying victims of the massive cyberattack and data theft incident first detected more than five months ago.
Health benefits administrator HealthEquity, which earlier this month reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a hacking incident involving the compromised credentials of a vendor, has now told state regulators that the breach affected the information of 4.3 million individuals.
U.S. hospital chain Ascension has filed a placeholder breach report to federal regulators saying its May 8 ransomware attack affected at least 500 individuals. Meanwhile, the waiting game continues for Change Healthcare's official data breach report and individual notifications.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the massive CrowdStrike IT outage that crashed 8.5 million Windows systems and severely affected the healthcare, finance and transportation sectors. Here's what you need to know one week later about the recovery, impact and lessons learned.
The U.K. National Health Service is urging hospitals across the country to limit the use of rare O-negative type blood after a ransomware attack on a British laboratory service provider crippled blood donations across the country. National blood stocks are at "unprecedentedly low levels."
Software vendor MCG Health has agreed to pay $8.8 million to settle a consolidated proposed federal class action lawsuit involving a 2020 hacking incident. The suit claims the company took two years to identify and report a data theft that affected about 1.1 million people.
The U.S. is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of suspected North Korean hacker Rim Jong Hyok after authorities indicted him for involvement in the regime's Andariel hacking group. Hyok is charged with conspiracy to commit computer hacking and money laundering.
Ransomware group Daixin is threatening to leak sensitive medical information of 10 million patients on the dark web. The group claims to have stolen the data in an attack on Louisiana-based Acadian Ambulance - the latest in a string of incidents targeting emergency medical services.
The Department of Health and Human Services is facing some of the same cloud security problems as the healthcare organizations it regulates: weaknesses in a dozen different cloud security controls and inventories of cloud systems, according to an inspector general's audit report.
As if the healthcare sector doesn't have enough technology problems, the global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software update has forced some hospitals and other medical facilities worldwide to resort to manual downtime procedures and cancel patient procedures.
In this insightful webinar, ClearDATA's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Jim Ducharme, explores the intricate landscape of cloud security, focusing on the advanced threats facing healthcare organizations and the unique challenge of protecting PHI in cloud. Ducharme presents actionable insights into developing resilient...
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