Nine months after a ransomware attack on health payment processing company Change Healthcare, the impact on medical practices, providers and patients continues to reverberate. The cyberattack saw the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary knocked offline, disrupting billions of dollars in payments and compromising sensitive information for millions of patients. Such breaches are feared to become more common and disruptive, given the healthcare sector’s wealth of money, sensitive data and personal information – all of which can be exploited by cybercriminals.
HHS Office for Civil Rights Reaches $10,000 Settlement over HIPAA Ransomware Cybersecurity Probe – DataBreaches.Net
Alright, let’s have a natter about an interesting development in the realm of healthcare cybersecurity. Recently, a surgical group based in Michigan, namely the Northeast