Becker's Healthcare November 21, 2022
From a third-party data breach to phishing schemes that compromised employee email accounts, here are seven health systems that have been affected by a cybersecurity incident since Oct. 27:
- Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine notified 33,850 patients that some of their personal health information may have been compromised because of a phishing scheme that targeted employees’ email accounts. On Aug. 23, the health system learned that hackers were targeting its employees with a phishing scheme in which the hackers lured employees to a webpage designed to get them to enter their Michigan Medicine login information. Four employees entered their login information and accepted the multifactor authentication prompts, which allowed the hackers to gain access to their Michigan Medicine email accounts. ...