Anthem breach puts data of more than 18,000 members at risk
The announcement of the breach comes just over a month after Anthem reached the largest ever settlement in a data-breach case.
Bupa breach affects more than half a million customers
Unlike recent ranswomare attacks, the breach came from within the company.
Anthem settles data-breach litigation for record $115 million
Anthem has reached a $115 million deal to settle lawsuits over a 2015 data breach in which hackers stole personal information from 78.8 million employees and current and former members.
UNC Health Care: Patient information may have been leaked
UNC Health Care has sent out a letter alerting its prenatal patients that their confidential medical information may have been shared with their home county by mistake.
Emory Healthcare cyberattack affects 80,000 patient records
Hackers held the Atlanta health system's patient appointments system for ransom, compromising tens of thousands of patients' sensitive personal information.
Data Points: Healthcare data breaches
The frequency and scope of data breaches--from cyberattacks to simple theft and loss--has grown along with the exploding volume of digitized information in healthcare delivery and financial transactions.
Vital Signs: How America's youth is key to fixing the sad state of cybersecurity
In 2016, there were 106 major healthcare data breaches attributed to hackers. Those breaches exposed 13.5 million individuals' records. The average cost to a healthcare organization for loss of a single record was $402. Doing the math, that's $2.8 billion spent on those hacking incidents alone.
The 2016 Year in Review: Information technology
Cyber-insecurity mounted in 2016 as a series of high-profile attacks signaled the dark side of the federal government's huge push to provide every American with an electronic health record.
Modern health IT systems and apps offer Christmas gifts to the hacker
Health IT systems are becoming more like Christmas trees powered by the internet of things and a drive to connect patients to their medical data through mobile devices, apps and portals.
Could blockchain help cure health IT's security woes?
The encryption-enabled data exchange system holds great promise in simplifying an array of healthcare data transactions on both the business and clinical sides of healthcare—from claims adjudication to precision medicine.
Subpoena demands release of audit showing Anthem's cybersecurity lapses
Plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against health insurer Anthem are demanding the federal government turn over documents that allegedly show Anthem knew its information technology security was heavily flawed ahead of its vast data breach last year.
St. Joseph Health in California agrees to $2.1 million HIPAA settlement
A file-sharing application on a server had a default setting that allowed Google, other search engines and “anyone with an internet connection" access to them, according to a statement from the Office for Civil Rights at HHS.
