Cedars Sinai Breach

Cedars Sinai Breach

Cedars-Sinai said it will mail letters to patients identified as being potentially affected by a data breach. Cedars Sinai is one of the world’s largest academic healthcare organizations. They provide cutting-edge patient care, medical education, and biomedical research. Unfortunately, they recently experienced a data breach that affected more than 500,000 patients.

Health Care Systems and Medical Devices at Risk

Health Care Systems and Medical Devices at Risk

Health Care Systems and Medical Devices at Risk for Increased Cyber Intrusions for Financial Gain Cyber actors will likely increase cyber intrusions against health care systems—to include medical devices—due to mandatory transition from paper to electronic health records (EHR), lax cybersecurity standards, and a higher financial payout for medical records in the black market.