The CyberPHIx Roundup is your quick source for keeping up with the latest cybersecurity news, trends and industry leading practices, specifically for the healthcare industry.

In this episode, our host Brian Selfridge highlights the following topics trending in healthcare cybersecurity this week:

• Overview of a $931m telehealth fraud case and how patient information becomes monetized
• Patient records from two health systems posted to the dark web from an extortion attempt
• Nationwide Children’s research data stolen and sold to China
• A breach at UPMC attributable to a third-party legal vendor; analysis of top breach vendor categories
• Class action lawsuit against third-party vendor U.S. Fertility from ransomware attack in 2020
• FTC settles with a fertility app called Flo for selling patient information & class action against another fertility app for selling data to China
• Water treatment plant hack and related hacking techniques explained that apply to healthcare entities
• Summary of Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act
• FDA appoints a newly created leadership position for medical device security
• Summary of the proposed Public Health Emergency Privacy Act for protecting COVID-19 patient data