A second healthcare company targeted, leave our health care system alone!

OK,

I saw this oin our Security Box list, and I’m about fed up! This topic will be our main feature of podcast 96 this coming Wednesday, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we decide to have a few choice words for these guys.

While I’m not surprised of this news, I remember one group clearly stating that health care was off limits, and they went back on their word as discussed at that time. That’s why we can’t take anything they say for granted.

The article today is titled Ransomware group strikes second U.S. health care system in the last two months which is heavily linked full of information and even talks about the two known deaths because of ransomware.

AvosLocker, a prolific ransomware group that was the subject of a recent joint FBI and U.S. Treasury Department warning, claimed this week that it had hit a Dallas-based nonprofit Catholic health system with more than 600 facilities across four U.S. states, Mexico, Chile and Colombia.

McKenzie did not comment as they were the first to be targeted.

The article continues:

Katy Kiser, CHRISTUS Health’s director of communications, told CyberScoop Friday that the company’s IT staff learned of “unauthorized access” in one of its regions — which the company refers to as “ministries” — sometime in early May. The company is working with cybersecurity professionals to assess the situation, she said, but so far it appears to be “limited” and said the attack “didn’t impact patient care.”

You don’t think patient records are at risk, but you really don’t know. Its what you know at the moment. If I were in these shoes, I would say that we are not sure if patient care is affected, or whether the data is at risk, but if we find out that it is, we’ll send notification immediately.

There’s plenty more, please check out the complete article for all of the details. Thanks so much for reading!