Security
A failed contract to build a customer database for HealthNow Networks, left personal health information exposed online for months, according to an investigation by ZDNet and DataBreaches.net.
The law was enacted when the internet was in its infancy and healthcare was still paper-based.
If passed, the law would help small- and medium-sized healthcare providers that often have constrained security budgets.
With Bitcoin allowing attackers to stay anonymous, and a bulls-eye painted over the industry, time to get prepared is running out, group says.
ABCD Children’s Pediatrics also discovered other evidence of hackers on the network, which included suspicious user accounts.
More than a third of the 1,798 breaches discovered in 2016 affected either large hospitals or academic medical centers, a JAMA report found.
As threats continue to plague the healthcare industry, Congress needs to financially support industries willing to share threat data, group says.
Deploy detection tool, use threat intelligence services and train your employees now to stay ahead, Beazley report says.
The hacker group APT 28 - responsible for leaking data on Olympic athletes in 2016 - stole confidential medical data of athletes that appear to have been removed from IAAF’s server.
Washington University School of Medicine employee responded to a phishing attempt masked as a legitimate request in December, but medical school officials didn’t learn of the incident for seven weeks.