Malware Attacks: A Tale of Two Healthcare Incidents

Two recently disclosed malware attacks in the healthcare sector illustrate that detection and mitigation of such attacks can be rapid, or it can take many months. The bigger of the two incidents - impacting nearly 539,000 patients - was a malware attack on LifeBridge Health that occurred in September 2016 but was not discovered until 18 months later, the Baltimore, Maryland-based physician practice reports.The other incident was a May 17 ransomware attack on Allied Physicians of Michiana, a specialty practice...