A study investigating the impact of ransomware attacks on hospitals and the ripple effect on nearby facilities is a call to action for policymakers to seriously address how those assaults can be better handled in the health sector, said researchers Rahi Abouk and David Powell.
In a clash of cloud security titans, Wiz denied all claims made by rival Orca Security of patent infringement and unauthorized use of proprietary information. Instead, Wiz said Orca copied its technological advancements and used confidential information to enhance its own products.
A high-ranking U.S. senator is urging the Department of Health and Human Services to get tougher on healthcare sector cyber requirements. He says its failure to regulate the cyber practices of top healthcare organizations is contributing to the "major epidemic" of attacks such as Change Healthcare.
SecurityScorecard accused Safe Security and former employee Mary Polyakova in a civil complaint of stealing confidential customer information and engaging in unfair competition. The lawsuit seeks to protect SecurityScorecard's trade secrets and recover monetary damages.
Six weeks after an Alabama hospital settled the first-ever death claim related to a ransomware attack, attorneys representing the mother of the baby who died - allegedly from birth complications related to the 2019 incident - say the hospital hasn't paid up and are asking the court to intervene.
The Federal Court of Australia has rejected a request from telecommunications giant Optus to keep private a detailed digital forensic investigation report conducted by Deloitte into the massive data breach it suffered in 2022, exposing private information pertaining to nearly 10 million customers.
A federal judge has denied class certification in consolidated proposed class action litigation against Blackbaud stemming from the fundraising software vendor's 2020 ransomware attack that affected 13,000 clients and compromised data of about 1.5 million donors, patients and other individuals.
While most healthcare sector organizations hit with ransomware attacks never imagine giving in to extortion demands, the pressures they face in dealing with the crisis often push about half of them to pay, said attorney Lynn Sessions of BakerHostetler, speaking about the firm's healthcare clients.
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A second federal judge has recommended the dismissal of a second proposed class action lawsuit against Catholic hospital chain CommonSpirit over a 2022 cyberattack and data breach that affected nearly 624,000 people. Both judges said the plaintiffs failed to show how they were harmed by the breach.
The aftershocks of the Change Healthcare cyberattack are still reverberating through the healthcare sector nearly 60 days into the recovery process. But on Tuesday, members of Congress and industry experts grappled with how to avoid a future replay - minus a key witness: UnitedHealth Group.
A global law firm that provides data breach legal services has agreed to an $8 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action lawsuit filed against the firm in the aftermath of its cyberattack last year, which affected some health sector clients and nearly 638,000 individuals.
As the Sam Bankman-Fried courtroom saga continues, crypto policy expert Ari Redbord discusses the sentencing's impact of the FTX founder on the ecosystem and regulations, what lies ahead for the industry and approaches to curbing illicit finance threats in the space.
The IT services disruptions resulting from the Change Healthcare cyberattack is continuing to have a "devastating" effect on physician practices, threatening the financial viability of many and posing serious implications to patient care, said the American Medical Association in a new study.
As recovery from its Feb. 21 cyberattack continues, Change Healthcare and its parent company UnitedHealth Group are facing a growing pile of lawsuits, while health sector entities affected by the IT services disruption are dealing with a mounting stack of bills and other paperwork to catch up on.
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