After a year of unprecedented ransomware attacks on hospitals and healthcare systems — and with healthcare now the #1 target for cybercriminals — critical medical…
On Nov. 29, 2021, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) became aware that a former employee sent emails from her UAMS email to…
A disruption last month in the Maryland Department of Health’s reporting of COVID-19 data was in fact a ransomware attack, the state’s Chief Information Security…
A December 11 ransomware attack of Kronos Private Cloud continues to delay pay for healthcare workers in three states, according to news reports.
QRS, a healthcare technology company that provides EHR services, is now facing a lawsuit in the wake of an August 2021 cyberattack that impacted nearly…
Florida-based Broward Health announced over the weekend that it had notified patients and staff that their personal information was subject to a data breach that…
Illinois-based Advocate Aurora Health faced a protected health information (PHI) breach due to a billing error that caused the health information of over 1,600 patients…
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is issuing guidance to help clarify how the Health…
According to the latest figures released by the CyberPeace Institute, 295 cyberattacks are known to have been conducted on the healthcare sector in the past…
One of the most serious healthcare ransomware attacks occurred earlier this year, when the Health Service Executive (HSE), the Republic of Ireland’s national health system,…