Federal regulators and medical device maker Becton, Dickinson and Co. are warning about eight vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to compromise BD's medication infusion product suite, potentially putting data and device integrity at risk if exploited.
Life sciences firms, including pharmaceutical companies, are facing growing challenges in securing complex sets of sensitive data, including genomic information, said H-ISAC's Phil Englert, one of many high-profile speakers who will discuss industry trends at ISMG's upcoming Healthcare Summit 2023.
Based on the 1,862 U.S. data breach notifications issued in the first half of this year, 2023 looks set to break multiple records, especially as more breaches come to light due to the Clop ransomware group exploiting a zero-day flaw in widely used MOVEit file transfer software.
Plaintiffs filed the first of what will likely be many more proposed class action lawsuits against HCA Healthcare just two days after the hospital chain publicly disclosed a hacking incident involving the posting of information for potentially 11 million patients on a dark web forum.
Configuration management - especially vulnerability patching - is a significant challenge for many healthcare entities, including some Veterans Affairs medical facilities. A recent watchdog agency security inspection found configuration to be a top weakness at a VA healthcare system in Arizona.
Johns Hopkins University and its Johns Hopkins Health System are facing at least two proposed federal class action lawsuits filed in recent days following the institution's disclosure that it was among victims of the recent spate of hacks involving MOVEit file transfer software.
Given the sustained onslaught of cyberattacks against the healthcare industry, organizations can help protect all enterprises simply by sharing advance information, said Steve Hunter, vice president of marketing and development at Health-ISAC. Ensuring anonymity helps users share more freely.
Information on up to 11 million patients of hospital chain HCA Healthcare is up for sale on a dark web forum. HCA Healthcare on Monday confirmed an incident involving data theft from an external location used to automate the formatting of email messages but said it is still investigating.
Hacking incidents, including those involving ransomware attacks or vendors, that affect tens of millions of individuals, continue to account for the majority of health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year. What are the other emerging breach trends?
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Ransomware continues to be the biggest threat to the European healthcare sector, but the region also is experiencing an uptick in distributed denial-of-service attacks tied to hacktivist groups, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity warned.
A ransomware attack in May that and compromised the sensitive information of 319,500 individuals, including addiction treatment center patient data, has so far generated three proposed federal class action lawsuits against the Pennsylvania real estate firm that owns the medical group.
A Tennessee medical clinic and surgical center is notifying more than half a million patients and employees that their personal information may have been stolen by cybercriminals in an April cyberattack that disrupted healthcare services for several days.
Federal regulators are once again reminding healthcare entities and their vendors of the importance of using strong multifactor authentication to help fend off hacks and other compromises, but they also warn about avoiding common mistakes with MFA.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has notified Congress that the information of at least 100,000 individuals has been compromised in hacking incidents at HHS contractors involving exploitation of a flaw in managed file transfer software MOVEit from Progress Software.
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