In November, 2016, the Metropolitan Urology Group (MUG) was hit with a ransomware attack. \u00a0Two months later, in January, 2017, MUG discovered the hackers obtained private, patient information during the attack. \u00a0The patients impacted are those who rendered services between 2003 and 2010. \u00a0The information exposed included patient names, dates of service, procedure codes, patient control numbers and the provider identification number. \u00a0According to MUG’s website<\/a>, five patients’ social security numbers were also exposed. \u00a0For all effected patients, MUG is offering one year of free credit monitoring services.<\/p>\n According to their website<\/a>, MUG is also working with a third party information technology service to remove the ransomware and taking preventative steps to ensure an attack of this sort does not occur again.<\/p>\n To see a full list of ransomware attacks that took place in 2016, you can click here<\/a>. We have also created a ransomware map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.
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