Prospect Medical Holdings, a chain that owns hospitals, as well as more than 165 outpatient facilities, said ransomware hackers had breached its system.
I used to work in social services and a suburban Philly county got attacked. I had to delay services to people with disabilities because funding couldn’t come through. These people are disgusting.
The Prospect hack is the 157th cyberattack on a U.S. health care organization this year, said Allan Liska, a ransomware analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Liska said it is also the largest since October 2021, when a ransomware attack prompted CommonSpirit Health, a chain of more than 140 hospitals, to temporarily halt computer operations across the country.
This is awful. Sick kids hospital in Toronto got attacked earlier this year but the group apologised and gave the decrypt key without payment. This is the least they could do here too.
