One day after Quest Diagnostics reported that nearly 12 million of its patients were potentially affected by a malicious breach of third-party bill collection vendor American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), fellow clinical testing firm LabCorp acknowledged that roughly 7.7 million of its customers may be affected by the same incident.

EMC and Hartford Hospital have agreed to pay US$90,000 to Connecticut in connection with the loss in 2012 of an unencrypted laptop containing patient information of 8,883 residents of the state, according to the state's attorney general.

Lost and stolen devices account for 45 percent of all breaches in Verizon's new health care data breach report.

Healthcare has become a favorite target for criminals, and some medical organizations are reacting by looking at outside providers to keep their data secure.But jumping to the cloud without first taking some precautions can be a mistake, experts say.

"Want to keep using the pacemaker? "" pay us 2 bitcoins" Experts fear that ransomware will start targeting medical devices.

A survey of major industries reveals health care organizations are below average in secure coding.