Yet another Attack on a medical centre, This should be a wake up call to anyone storing any medical data at all, Dental, Osteopath, Pharmacy anything even slightly related. Please get your systems checked out
Exploit: Ransomware.
Risk to Small Business: High: A ransomware attack on any business in any sector would greatly diminish the organization’s ability to operate as needed. In some ransomware cases the data encrypted is lost entirely.
Individual Risk: Moderate: At this point in time there is no evidence that the data affected was also exfiltrated.
Cass Regional Medical Center: Missouri based medical center.
Date Occurred/Discovered: July 9, 2018
Date Disclosed: July 9, 2018
Data Compromised: The medical center’s internal communications system and access to their electronic health record system were affected by the hack, but there is no public indication that patient data has been accessed.
Customers Impacted: Many details surrounding the attack are being withheld from the public at this time, but restoration of the affected systems were at 50% as of July 10, 2018.
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