
It doesn’t pay to pay a ransom – especially in healthcare
While you may rid yourself of one attacker by meeting their demands, you send a sign to threat actors around the world that you are willing to negotiate.
While you may rid yourself of one attacker by meeting their demands, you send a sign to threat actors around the world that you are willing to negotiate.
Last week, Chicago-based Allscripts was affected by a ransomware attack that took its cloud-based EHR and some e-prescribing capabilities offline. The vendor said to expect continued outages Monday.
A new analysis from Rockville, Maryland-based Cryptonite found that ransomware is on the rise. While there were 19 healthcare ransomware events reported to HHS/OCR in 2016, there were 36 in 2017.
The latest Breach Barometer from Protenus and DataBreaches.net details that the single largest incident in November was a ransomware attack on the Hackensack Sleep and Pulmonary Center in New Jersey. It impacted 16,747 patient records.