This week brings some positives for hospitals and health systems in the southeast United States that are dependent on blood supplies with critical network systems back online after the August 1 ransomware attack shut the…
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More than 60 core IT systems used within laboratories are being rebuilt following the cyber attack on pathology system provider Synnovis, which disrupted healthcare services in London.
Thousands of operations and appointments have been postponed…
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OneBlood, a blood center that serves 250 hospitals in the Southeast, restores its critical software systems after a July 29 ransomware attack forced them offline.
The organization says that its processing and distribution…
WHY IT MATTERSThe ransomware attack Wednesday on Orlando-based OneBlood, a blood donation organization that services more than 350 hospitals in the southwest, was the third by Russian-speaking ransomware groups on blood suppliers in recent months.
“The…
The rising number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations has become impossible to ignore. In fact, ransomware attacks targeting healthcare providers worldwide nearly doubled last year, according to the Cyber Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC)….
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What You Should Know:
– The Baim Institute for Clinical Research, a leading non-profit academic research organization, has fallen victim to a significant ransomware attack, according to Safety Detective’s cybersecurity…
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MediSecure hack exposed data of 13 million AustraliansApproximately 12.9 million Australians had their health information stolen in the recent MediSecure hack.
This, according to the embattled e-prescription provider, who recently went into administration following a…
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plans to introduce legislation for cyber security, digital and data were outlined in the King’s Speech on 17 July 2024.
The measures were among 40 bills announced by King Charles III…
More than 6,000 operations and appointments have been postponed at London hospitals affected by the Synnovis cyber attack, NHS England has confirmed.
In an update, published on 4 July 2024, NHSE said that 4,913 acute…
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Heritage Valley Health System (PA) will pay $950,000 to settle potential HIPAA security rule violations related to a 2017 ransomware attack that was caused by malware that spread from Nuance to multiple healthcare…
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