Medical Center Ransomware Attack Affects 700,000
June 14, 2022 – Published on HealthcareInfoSecurity
An Arizona medical center that suffered a ransomware attack in April has begun notifying 700,000 individuals of a data breach compromising sensitive medical and personal information.
The incident is the latest among an ever-growing list of healthcare sector entities reporting major health data breaches in recent weeks and months involving ransomware and other hacking attacks.
“The healthcare industry is always going to be a target from certain actors due to the type of data that they intrinsically gather and process,” says Tony Cook, head of threat intelligence at security firm GuidePoint Security. The key to stopping attacks is to deploy controls for catching intrusions early on before attackers spread laterally into the network, he adds.
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