Patient records were placed at risk due to a recent ransomware attack on a Virginia dermatology clinic…<\/p>\n
A Reston, Virginia dermatology clinic was hit with ransomware in June, leaving over 13,000 patient records at risk.\u00a0 Professional Dermatology Care is offering identity protection services to the patients who were affected.\u00a0 The clinic is also encouraging these patients to monitor their credit.\u00a0 According to Health Data Management<\/a>, the information that could be exposed included patient names, addresses, birthdates, social security numbers, Medicare numbers, medical and billing information.<\/p>\n It is not being reported if the clinic was able to remediate the issue on their own, or if they ended up paying the ransom to gain access to their records.\u00a0 The ransomware variant that attacked Professional Dermatology Care is also unknown.<\/p>\n If you ever find yourself a victim of ransomware, we encourage you to follow these five steps:<\/p>\n For a list of other ransomware attacks that have taken place in 2016, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n We have also generated an interactive map that includes all of the ransomware attacks within the United States that have occurred this year. <\/p>\n\n