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5 ways to strengthen healthcare cybersecurity

Webroot

Ransomware attacks are targeting healthcare organizations more frequently. Why healthcare needs better cybersecurity Healthcare organizations are especially vulnerable to data breaches because of how much data they hold. On average, the cost of a healthcare data breach globally is $10.93

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“Substantial proportion” of Americans may have had health and personal data stolen in Change Healthcare breach

Malwarebytes

UnitedHealth Group has given an update on the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare , one of its subsidiaries. On Wednesday February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare experienced serious system outages due to the cyberattack. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. Take your time.

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Cybersecurity Management Lessons from Healthcare Woes

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware attacks and data breaches make headlines when they shut down huge connected healthcare providers such as Ascension Healthcare or Change Healthcare. IT should never be the top expense for a healthcare organization. The costs, affected patients, and consequences continue to be tallied.

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Email compromise leads to healthcare data breach at Kaiser Permanente

Malwarebytes

At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. The direct path to data.

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Thursday Threat: NextGen Healthcare, Western Digital experience data breaches

Security Boulevard

Data breaches can affect a lot of people. Occasionally, news stories will emerge about data breaches where millions of people had their information compromised. However, it is highly unlikely that every single user or customer had their data stolen in an incident.

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Healthcare giant Magellan Health discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

” reads the data breach notice issued by the company. It is not the first time that Magellan and its subsidiaries suffer a data breach, in 2019 Magellan Rx Management , National Imaging Associates , and Magellan Healthcare subsidiaries were impacted by cyber attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

Krebs on Security

18, 2021, when an employee on a Windows computer opened a booby-trapped Microsoft Excel document in a phishing email that had been sent two days earlier. Also, most healthcare organizations in the United States are private companies that operate on razor-thin profit margins. Now this is in itself isn’t bad.