Hospital to Pay $65M to End Suit Over Cyberattack That Exposed Patients’ Nude Photos September 12, 2024 By Andrew G. Simpson Lehigh Valley Health Network has agreed to a $65 million settlement of a class action with patients and employees affected...
White House to Push Cybersecurity Standards on Hospitals May 10, 2024 By Katrina Manson and Jake Bleiberg The Biden administration intends to require hospitals to meet minimum cybersecurity standards after a single hack exposed the data of...
Connecticut M&A Advisor Agrees to Pay $1.5M to Settle Data Breach Class Action April 26, 2024 Merritt Healthcare Advisors, a Connecticut mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm for healthcare practices, has agreed to a $1.525 million...
Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Computers of Georgia City Police and Medical Clinic March 28, 2024 Robert Purbeck, also known as “Lifelock,” and “Studmaster,” who hacked into the computer servers of the police department of Newnan,...
Cancer Clinics Face Cash Crunch After Hack Rocks US Health Care March 13, 2024 By John Tozzi, Riley Griffin and Ike Swetlitz Doctors across the US are stretching to keep their practices afloat as a debilitating cyberattack on a once little-known company...
Hacking Allegations Expose E-Prescription System Cyber Risk January 29, 2024 By Philip Marcelo Scammers hacked into doctors’ electronic prescribing accounts, wrote tens of thousands of bogus orders for addictive drugs, then had runners...
Two New York Hospitals Resume Admitting Emergency Patients After Cyberattack October 25, 2023 Two New York hospitals that were hit with a cyberattack have resumed admitting emergency patients after shutting down their computer...
Massachusetts Health Firm Reports Cyber Attack June 8, 2022 By Andrew G. Simpson A major medical imaging and outpatient surgery firm in Massachusetts has reported a cyber attack that may have compromised the...
How FBI Helped Thwart ‘Despicable’ Cyberattack on Boston Children’s Hospital June 6, 2022 By Eric Tucker and Alan Suderman The FBI thwarted a planned cyberattack on a children’s hospital in Boston that was to have been carried out by...
Irish Patient Data May Have Been Posted on Dark Web After Cyber Attack: Minister Says May 20, 2021 By Peter Flanagan Reports of Irish patient data posted online after a cyber attack on Ireland’s health service appear to be accurate, a...