Two More Ransomware Attacks on Patient Care Orgs

Healthcare Informatics: Two more healthcare organizations have acknowledged in the last week that they were victims of what looks to be ransomware attacks on their servers.

For one, Greenbrae, Calif.-based Marin Healthcare District (MHD) received notice in late July that Marin Medical Practices Concepts, Inc., (MMPC), the company that provides MHD with business and healthcare system services, experienced a ransomware infection. More than 5,000 patients were then notified that some of their medical data was lost due to a glitch that followed the ransomware attack, according to the Marin Independent Journal.

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