Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Also a Clinical Concern
When a ransomware attack hampers a hospital’s electronic health records, the ripple effects are immediate and potentially life-threatening with diagnostic delays, canceled procedures and disrupted prescriptions. Every second…
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has flagged potential vulnerabilities that could lead to a cyber attack.
The trust’s board paper, published on 5 June 2025, states that “there is a risk of a cyber…
A significant cybersecurity incident has struck Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan, Iowa, with the notorious Worldleaks ransomware group claiming responsibility for a massive data breach that potentially compromises sensitive patient information and hospital operations.
Initial…
A patient death has been linked to the cyber attack on NHS pathology system provider Synnovis, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation has confirmed.
The ransomware attack on 4 June 2024 caused widespread disruption to NHS services in…
This fragmentation can lead to blind spots, and in healthcare, where protected health information (PHI) is a prime target, that’s a dangerous gap to leave unguarded.
As systems expand into the cloud, the attack surface…
Employee Empowerment Drives Rapid Recovery from Ransomware Attack
Kettering Health’s response to a devastating cyberattack demonstrates how employee empowerment and innovative thinking can triumph over traditional crisis management approaches. The Ohio-based healthcare system’s recovery strategy…
Episource, which develops analytics tools for healthcare providers, said it has begun informing patient victims of a health data breach as a result of a ransomware attack in February. Customer Sharp Healthcare and Sharp Community…
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New warnings from the American Hospital Association and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency detail a shift in tactics by Play, a ransomware group that uses a double-layered extortion model to encrypt systems and…
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The Interlock ransomware group claims to have stolen 940 gigabytes of patient, employee, and corporate data from Kettering Health (OH), which is still working to recover from the May 20 ransomware attack.
Kettering…
Across healthcare, organizations are updating backup and storage systems to protect valuable data assets. Indelible backups (or snapshots) are one of the key elements of a backup modernization strategy, as they ensure data cannot…
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