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Healthcare is the delivery of clinical care and related services through hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, insurers, and connected medical devices. It depends on electronic health records (EHRs), patient identity systems, diagnostic and imaging platforms, medication and scheduling systems, and data exchanges between organizations. These environments hold sensitive health and payment information, while the availability and integrity of systems can affect treatment, diagnostics, and patient safety.
Security concerns include unauthorized access or disclosure of records, alteration of clinical data, and disruption of care through attacks on EHRs, connected devices, or third-party services. Defenses require risk-based access controls, strong authentication, network separation where appropriate, secure device and software maintenance, backups that support clinical continuity, and tested downtime and incident-response procedures. Vulnerability management must account for legacy systems and devices that cannot be patched quickly. Privacy and compliance obligations, such as HIPAA in the United States, shape how organizations collect, use, share, retain, and report health information.
Pharmaceutical giant Cencora has confirmed that patients' protected health information and personally identifiable information (PII) was exposed in a February cyberattack. [...]
Pharma company Cencora confirmed in an updated SEC filing that sensitive personal and health data was exfiltrated by attackers in a February 2024 incident
Scumbags go for the jugular A ransomware attack against blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, which services more than 250 American hospitals, has "significantly reduced" the org's ability to take, test, and distribute blood.…
OneBlood, a large not-for-profit blood center that serves hospitals and patients in the United States, is dealing with an IT systems outage caused by a ransomware attack. [...]
US non-profit OneBlood has issued an urgent appeal for donations after a ransomware attack has significantly reduced its capacity to distribute blood to hospitals
Health savings specialist HealthEquity reveals over four million customers were impacted in a recent breach
No mention of malware or ransomware – somewhat of a rarity these days HealthEquity, a US fintech firm for the healthcare sector, admits that a "data security event" it discovered at the end of June hit the data of a substantial 4.3 million individuals. Stolen details include addresses, telephone numbers and payment data.…