Takeaways: Since December, at least two Wichita medical practices joined a growing and unwelcome trend in health care: They got hacked and had to tell patients that their personal medical and financial information was in the hands of cybercriminals. In early December, Wichita Urology Group said more than 5,000 people may have been affected by […]
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How ransomware attacks at Kansas City hospitals threaten your privacy and health
Takeaways: It happened in Topeka in November. In Liberty in December. And seemingly all the time everywhere: Hackers crack open a hospital’s digital heart, seize control of its computer network and hold it hostage. Those ransomware attacks threaten to spill your most intimate medical secrets onto the internet and lock up a hospital’s ability to […]