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Healthcare remains costliest industry for breaches at $7.42M
Despite maintaining its status as the most expensive industry for data breaches, healthcare saw a sharp reduction from last year's cost of $9.77 million, IBM's annual report found.
Governance gaps curb mobile device potential in healthcare
Shared-use mobile devices show promise for enhancing communication and patient care, but governance and access management gaps may hold healthcare back from realizing the benefits.
Risk management remains pain point for healthcare: Report
Healthcare is making strides in governance and response planning, but the sector has room to grow when it comes to risk management.
Microsoft issues emergency patch for SharePoint vulnerability
The Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability only impacts on-premises SharePoint Server customers, who should apply the emergency patch as soon as possible to mitigate risk.
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Latest News
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Entities report several large healthcare data breaches to OCR
Millions of individuals were impacted by the most recent healthcare data breaches reported to HHS.
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CMS, FBI warn healthcare entities about fraud, phishing scam
Criminals are impersonating health insurers and sending fraudulent fax requests for medical records and documentation as part of an ongoing phishing scam, the FBI and CMS warned.
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Texas court vacates HIPAA reproductive health privacy rule
A Texas U.S. district judge struck down the 2024 modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule that aimed to strengthen protections for reproductive healthcare data.
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Episource data breach affects 5.4M individuals
IT vendor Episource suffered a ransomware attack earlier this year that resulted in a multi-million-record data breach that impacted its health plan and provider customers.
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Lawmakers introduce bipartisan healthcare cybersecurity bill
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Act aims to increase coordination between HHS and CISA, particularly during active cyberattacks.
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Kettering Health resumes normal operations after cyberattack
Kettering Health restored its normal operations three weeks after the Interlock ransomware group launched a cyberattack against its systems.
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Minimizing healthcare cyberattacks with network segmentation
Network segmentation can improve security, performance and compliance across healthcare environments.
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How Medicaid cuts could endanger rural hospital cybersecurity
Rural hospital cybersecurity funding may be at risk as Medicaid cuts threaten the viability of already resource-strapped rural healthcare facilities.
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Biggest healthcare data breaches reported in 2025, so far
More than 29 million individuals were affected by healthcare data breaches in the first half of 2025.
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Understaffed, underfunded: Health IT security for small, rural providers
Under-resourced providers face the same healthcare cybersecurity challenges as their larger counterparts but often lack the staffing and support to effectively manage risk.