Lexology November 16, 2020
Users of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, recently lost access to electronic medical records when UHS suffered a ransomware attack and took its systems offline to remediate and prevent the spread of ransomware across its networks. The attack highlights the ongoing threats that hospitals and other healthcare providers face from malicious actors as well as the high cost of such incidents, even when they do not cause unauthorized disclosure of protected health information.
Ransomware is a type of malware (malicious software) that denies the victim access to their data (usually by encrypting the information) until the victim pays a ransom to the hacker. The UHS attack, which may be the largest ever...
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