Health organizations increasingly are targets of cyber-extortion plots aimed at hijacking patients' sensitive personal data, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warns.
About 3.6 million records were involved in 146 hack-type breaches of medical organizations made public in 2017 alone, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit group based in San Diego.
Lawyers themselves were exposed to the horrors of cyber extortion last June when a malicious software called Petya crippled DLA Piper, locking its computers' users out of their devices' data in exchange for a $300 ransom payment, according to reports on ALM affiliate publications.
Continue Reading for Free
Register and gain access to:
- Breaking benefits news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
- Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
- Critical converage of the property casualty insurance and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, PropertyCasualty360 and ThinkAdvisor
Already have an account? Sign In Now
© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
Kristen Rasmussen
Kristen Rasmussen is an Atlanta-based reporter who covers corporate law departments and in-house attorneys.
