Melbourne hospitals ransomware strike a reminder on malware’s danger to your (data) health

Melbourne’s Cabrini Hospital Malvern was hit with a malware attack that corrupted its data. More than 15,000 patients were unable to access files for over three weeks. Ransomware may be declining overall, but the paralysation of a Malvern hospitals cardiac unit is a reminder that such attacks are an omnipresent threat to business continuity and the integrity of sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) The attack is the latest blow to a healthcare community struggling to tighten the security of the sensitive medical data that it manages on a daily basis.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3504862/melbourne-hospital-s-ransomware-strike-a-reminder-on-malware-s-danger-to-your-data-health.html