In April, ransomware infiltrated the servers of Golden Heart Administrative Professionals (GHAP), a medical billing, and bookkeeping facility located in Fairbanks, Alaska.\u00a0 The incident was reported to impact approximately 500 of GHAP’s clients,\u00a0exposing approximately 44,600 patient files.\u00a0 Although there is no evidence the information breached has been used maliciously, GHAP reported they must assume all information has been compromised.\u00a0 This data includes patient names, birthdates, addresses, credit card information, medical treatment, diagnosis codes, and social security numbers.<\/p>\n
According to SC Media<\/a>, the company has\u00a0notified law enforcement and credit agencies,\u00a0as well as replaced hardware and updated\u00a0software.\u00a0 They also plan to reevaluate its security measures and increase employee cyber security training.\u00a0 These are all great steps to take, but in order to prevent another attack from infiltrating the network again, the company needs to implement a solution that will only allow trusted applications to execute<\/a>.<\/p>\n For a list of ransomware attacks that have already taken place in 2018, you may click here<\/a>. We have also created a map, see below, of the ransomware attacks that have taken place in the U.S.Other Ransomware Attacks<\/h4>\n
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