back to article Crooks get their hands on 500K+ radiology patients' records in cyber-attack

Consulting Radiologists has notified almost 512,000 patients that digital intruders accessed their personal and medical information during a February cyberattack. The 90-year-old Minnesota-based healthcare biz provides on-site radiology services for 22 hospitals and clinics, plus remote teleradiology for more than 100 …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Sigh

    So much for ransomware gangs staying away from medical stuff. Hospitals and labs are an easy payday for them - some of them will pay up in a panic

    1. Snake Silver badge

      Re: Sigh

      Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam

      Count me in.

  2. sitta_europea Silver badge

    Make it known that when they're caught (and for most of them that's inevitable because they're greedy, and they think that they're better than everybody else) they'll be put in General Population.

    It shouldn't be too hard to make sure that a few people who have suffered from the effects of ransomware are in General Population too.

  3. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

    full transparency,???

    "we are notifying you out of full transparency,"

    Four months later? Lying bastards! This is just a PR exercise to them.

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