Katie Palmer reports: Odds are, you’ve gotten at least one of the unnerving letters in your mailbox this year: “We’re writing to inform you of a cybersecurity incident,” it might start. It’s the standard notice many health care organizations are required to provide when your protected health information gets exposed — and in 2023, data…
Category: Health Data
St Vincent’s Health falls victim to cyberattack
David Swan reports: St Vincent’s Health says it has sustained a cyberattack and hackers have stolen data from its network, with the hospital and aged care provider urgently investigating the incident. St Vincent’s, which is the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, said it discovered the attack on Tuesday and an investigation into…
Lovelace restores patient portal following cyberattack
Megan Gleason reports: Lovelace patients can once again schedule their appointments and refill their prescriptions online. The Lovelace Health System restored access to its patient portal, MyChart, on Thursday. The system was down following a cyberattack on Ardent Health Services, Lovelace’s parent company, detected on Thanksgiving. The inaccessible patient portal caused difficulties for some people in rescheduling…
Patient records lost, equipment damaged at several urban primary health centers by cyclone
Every so often, a natural disaster reminds us of other ways records are lost and why entities should have offsite backups that are regularly updated. Ishvarya Lakshmi reports: Patient records, medical instruments, drugs, syringes, needles and sanitary pads in several urban primary health centres (UPHC) were swept away during the recent cyclone. Officials at the…
College of the Canyons alerts employees to third-party ransomware attack
Tyler Wainfeld reports: College of the Canyons is communicating with more than 2,400 affected personnel after an unauthorized data breach through its insurance provider, according to Eric Harnish, a spokesman for the college. Keenan & Associates, a Torrance-based consulting and brokerage firm which has the Santa Clarita Community College District as one of its clients,…
Self-proclaimed hackers take credit for computer problems at Liberty Hospital
Andy Alcock reports from Missouri: A blackmail message from an apparent hacker appears to be the reason Liberty Hospital computer systems crashed Tuesday. KMBC exclusively obtained that message. The message from an unknown source says in part, “We have hacked you and downloaded all confidential data of your company. And it can be spread out…