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The drumbeat of news about cyberattacks in health care seems unrelenting. In Michigan alone, cybersecurity breaches have affected millions of people, including those implicated in the following ...
The Anthem medical data breach was a medical data breach of information held by Elevance Health, known at that time as Anthem Inc. . On February 4, 2015, Anthem, Inc. disclosed that criminal hackers had broken into its servers and had potentially stolen over 37.5 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers. [1]
"This incident is a reminder of the interconnectedness of the domestic health care ecosystem and of the urgency of strengthening cybersecurity resiliency across the ecosystem," HHS said in a ...
UnitedHealth Group said Monday that it’s paid out more than $2 billion to help health-care providers who have been affected by the cyberattack on subsidiary Change Healthcare.
The Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League is a cybersecurity group formed in 2020 which focuses on healthcare organizations. [1] [2] [3]Analysis of content on cybercrime forums related to targeted of healthcare organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, [4] [5] showed that healthcare organizations were targeted in "every populated content", with nearly two-thirds of being within North ...
The National Cyber Security Centre identified the penetration testing tool Cobalt Strike, sold by American IT company HelpSystems, as being used to move through and infect HSE and Department of Health systems, to run executable files, and to deploy a variant of the Conti ransomware.
Medical data, including patients' identity information, health status, disease diagnosis and treatment, and biogenetic information, not only involve patients' privacy but also have a special sensitivity and important value, which may bring physical and mental distress and property loss to patients and even negatively affect social stability and national security once leaked.
Healthcare information in EMRs are important sources for clinical, research, and policy questions. Health information privacy (HIP) and security has been a big concern for patients and providers. Studies in Europe evaluating electronic health information poses a threat to electronic medical records and exchange of personal information. [6]