In early February, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles was hit by ransomware. Their data was encrypted by the malware, and their computer system was rendered useless. Hospital staff members were forced to communicate through phone and fax and keep handwritten patient records. The hospital ended up paying $17,000 in bitcoins to the hackers […]
How many breach notifications have you received in the last five years? According to the latest data breach statistics, I would wager that you’ve received multiple notifications. Access any news site and it’s clear that cyber security breaches are rampant. In February 2015, Anthem announced a breach affecting 80 million patient and employee records. That […]
Open any news report and you can see that data breaches are becoming pandemic. Any company that houses sensitive digital information is at risk, and these days, that’s most companies. Most recently, hackers targeted the country’s second-largest health care insurer and gained access to the personal information of more than 80 million current and former […]