Hospitals Suffer New Wave of Hacking Attempts
News Highlights: Hospitals Suffer New Wave of Hacking Attempts.
Hackers are increasingly attempting to break into healthcare companies, putting extra pressure on an industry that is already struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Persistent threats come from ransomware gangs, financial scammers and hackers backed by nation-states, current and former hospital security chiefs say.
“The logs and the graphs show, oh man, these have increased, that’s hard to deny,” said Christopher Stroud, technology manager at Great Plains Health, a hospital in North Platte, Neb., Serving approximately 183,000 patients. one month.
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Great Plains Health normally blocks about 10,000 attempts every day to access its servers, said Mr. Stroud. After it began its first antibody studies against the coronavirus in November, it saw that number triple on average, he said. Some days 70,000 attempts have been made.