It’s been well documented that stolen electronic medical records sell for ten to twenty times more, on the black market, than stolen credit card numbers. But the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital case is different. Rather than selling stolen medical records, the hackers injected malware that restricted the hospital’s access to its computer system, and would only share the decryption key if a ransom of $17,000 was paid.
Why would they do that?
In part 2 of Healthcare Matters’ series What You Need to Know: Hospital Ransomware Attacks, Vice President of Information Services at Cooperative of American Physicians, Inc. (CAP) Tom Andre shares the top two risks hospitals face when dealing with malware attacks.
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