The ubiquity and anonymity of cryptocurrencies are fueling economic, legal and ethical challenges that put healthcare entities in the crosshairs of cybercriminals, said David Hoffman, general counsel of Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, which recently filed a lawsuit against ransomware gang LockBit. “I’m frankly enraged that as a global society we have endorsed and, in fact, promoted […]
A U.K. parliamentary committee investigating ransomware threats recommended a more aggressive stance against threat actors and said the government should consider making incident reporting mandatory and provide government support for public sector victims “to the point of full recovery.” The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy in a report published in the first minutes […]
A New York medical imaging services provider is notifying nearly 606,000 individuals that their information was potentially accessed and copied in a recent hacking incident. The entity is one of several medical imaging centers that have reported major hacking breaches in recent weeks and months. East River Medical Imaging, which has three locations in Manhattan […]
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