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Notification is the voluntary and/or mandatory admission of a company that certain pieces of critical information have been compromised in a breach.
Since medical devices often store and transmit sensitive health information, a security breach can expose personal health records, leading to identity theft and loss of patient confidentiality. This is a typical risk in ransomware attacks, where malicious actors encrypt critical data and demand a ranso...
Richmond University Medical Center, a 440-bed teaching hospital on Staten Island, N.Y, is notifying 674,000 people of a data theft that happened 18 months ago. The breach was part of a ransomware attack that disrupted the organization's IT systems for several weeks in spring 2023. ...
ConnectOnCall, which operates a communication platform that connects patients with healthcare providers during off-hours, is reaching out to nearly 1 million people about a breach that compromised their sensitive health information. The Wilmington, Del.-based firm reported the breach on Dec. 11. Ar...
(or directly to a server in a cloud), in order to monitor the therapy, and to share the information with family members and doctors. We are in the midst of the Digital Health transition, but not all medical devices were designed with security at the beginning of the...
Notification is the voluntary and/or mandatory admission of a company that certain pieces of critical information have been compromised in a breach.
In addition to providing hospitals with new devices that can receive security updates, another idea is to use predictive technology such as ‘breach likelihood’, which is available in other fields and would provide the probability and consequences of a breach happening based on a device. This ...
Information Security News on top Risk Management, Technology, Fraud and Compliance issues on ransomware data security breach
Once a bad actor has penetrated the network and begun wandering around looking for valuable data, the trick becomes figuring out the breach has occurred and shutting it down. Meany describes why discovery may be difficult without fingerprinting. ...