Cyber hack into medical centre highlights importance of cyber insurance
The age reported today here that a crime syndicate hacked 15,000 medical files at Cabrini Hospital, demands ransom. The article noted that :
The cyber crime syndicate has hacked and scrambled the medical files of about 15,000 patients from a specialist cardiology unit at Cabrini Hospital and demanded a ransom.
Melbourne Heart Group, which is based at the private hospital in Malvern, has been unable to access some patient files for more than three weeks, after the malware attack crippled its server and corrupted data.
The online gang responsible for the data breach demanded a ransom be paid in cryptocurrency before a password would be provided to break the encryption.
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