Emily Roberts reports: A second data breach has been reported by the trust which runs Basingstoke hospital, after personal data of 1,000 members of staff was shared. Details of the breach which was reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in July, have come to light in meeting papers published by Hampshire Hospitals NHS...
Kate Jickling reports: The University of Medical Center’s electronic medical records system is up and running nearly a month after the hospital fell victim to a cyberattack. Over the weekend, the hospital tech team restored Epic health records system, giving doctors and nurses full access to patient medical history, appointments, and medications, said Al Gobeille, a...
On September 1, Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, New York discovered that they had been attacked. On November 14, they issued a statement on their site and in local media. From that statement: What happened? In September 2020, Four Winds Hospital in Katonah was the victim of a ransomware attack that prevented the Hospital from...
Nov. 20 – Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Joshua Maywalt (40, Tampa) with 4 counts of health care fraud and 4 counts of aggravated identity theft. Maywalt faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each of the health care...
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