Terri Ripley, chief information officer at OrthoVirginia, detailed her firm’s recovery from a Ryuk ransomware attack at a recent cybersecurity forum. It took 18 months to fully restore the healthcare provider’s systems, but operations were never shut down. Ripley’s account highlighted the importance of calm reactions, insurance coverage, exhaustive record-keeping, and communication with stakeholders and media. She added that, since the February 2021 attack, the firm had moved from on-site data storage to the cloud.
Blue Shield Leaked Health Info of 4.7M patients with Google Ads
Blue Shield of California had a data breach affecting 4.7 million members after accidentally sharing protected health information with Google’s advertising platforms for nearly three
