News 3/6/24 – HIStalk
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Cybersecurity analysts surmise from underground forum chatter and evidence of a Bitcoin deposit that Change Healthcare may have paid a $24 million ransom to the BlackCat ransomware group on March 1.
They also…
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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 3/4/24 – HIStalk
A number of my physician friends still work for independent medical practices, which is a bit surprising given recent market forces that have been challenging even for the most well run of them. Now…
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Monday Morning Update 3/4/24 – HIStalk
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Change Healthcare executives hint that the company’s ransomware-crippled data exchange systems could remain down for weeks, as the financial and operational impact on provides ripples throughout the industry.
Parent company UnitedHealth Group has…
News 3/1/24 – HIStalk
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A ransomware group claims that its cyberattack against Change Healthcare yielded 8 terabytes of data from every provider that sends data to Change, including medical records, insurance records, and data from active military…
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Healthcare is the big victim of Blackcat’s cyber counteroffensive
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services revised its joint ALPHV Blackcat cybersecurity alert Tuesday to disseminate new indicators of compromise observed…
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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 2/29/24 – HIStalk
Lots of folks around the virtual water cooler are talking about the ransomware attack that has brought Change Healthcare to its knees. In addition to negatively impacting financial transaction, the trickledown effects are preventing…
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OCR settles its 2nd ransomware investigation, probably not the last
Following an investigation into the breach of the protected health information of 14,000 individuals, the U.S. Health and Human Services and the Office of Civil Rights announced a $40,000 settlement with Green Ridge Behavioral…
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At ViVE 2024, Get a Glimpse of the State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare – MedCity News
The uptick in malevolent data breaches at hospitals has been a worrying trend for the U.S. health system. From 2018-2022, there has been a 93% increase in large breaches reported to the Department of…
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News 2/21/24 – HIStalk
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The DoJ and international law enforcement partner agencies announce they have effectively taken down the LockBit ransomware group. The gang, which first surfaced in 2019, has targeted 2,000 victims including hospitals and healthcare…
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DOJ, international partners seize LockBit servers, provide decryptors
The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.K. National Crime Agency’s Cyber Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other international law enforcement partners announced Tuesday in London that they have put a sizeable dent…
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