Healthcare institutions are a favoured target of Cybercriminals.
They hold large amounts of sensitive personal data and many have outdated, inadequate IT infrastructure and Cybersecurity arrangements.
Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago is the latest victim, and the only way it has been able to continue serving its patients is by going entirely offline - using pen-and-paper to issue prescriptions, for example.
The ongoing vulnerability of hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities to this sort of attack is a critical problem for governments around the world.
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