Ransomware attack on medical records

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Your medical records may have been kidnapped. Many electronic health records are now maintained in the cloud by third party contractors. One such provider was recently hacked by ransomware. ’

I saw the story in the Authentic Medicine Gazette Here

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Or jusr a greedy hacker or a crime syndicate. The point is that what’s stored in the cloud is not necessarily safe. If a doc’s office kept paper medical records in their own office, or even computerized records which are entirely offline, it would be more secure.
 
I don’t think a State would have any interest in ransoming the medical records of an entire host. It’s probably being done by an organized criminal group.
 
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The organized criminal group is the deep state/Cabal. It is all being revealed in the documents very soon. 😁
 
If it is digital, someone is hacking it. That is simply part of the world in which we live.
 
Probably so, but if you have an office records system NOT connected to the internet, it is safer.

( I could see an salesperson making that argument to potential buyers of a non internet connected system. No wi-fi, no internet connection.)
 
No net, except wired connections within the office. Data stays on local hard drives or local non-networked server. I think I might go for something like that.
 
What an ironic situation this is. Congress went to all the trouble to pass HIPAA which makes everybody afraid to disclose anything at all, including letting your pastor know if you’re even in the hospital.

So, as is usual with such things, it’s accessible to crooks but not to honest people who need to know.
 
Great source of identity theft. Birthdays, City of birth, Social Security numbers, address, and probably in some cases the mother’s maiden name.

Put in a freeze on your credit is about all we can do.
 
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