Ransomware scum leak patient data after disrupting chemo treatments at Kettering Kettering Health patients who had chemotherapy sessions and pre-surgery appointments canceled due to a ransomware attack in May now have to deal with the painful prospect that their personal info may have been leaked online. Earlier today, ransomware gang Interlock dumped 941 GB of data purportedly belonging to the healthcare …
Whilst everyone should have a paper-based fallback that offer continuity when the tech goes down (hack or bug), it should be a legal requirement for essential services such as utilities, healthcare and banks.
Making it a legal requirement should mean that they don't skimp on it to save cash.
as sound as that advice is, the data taken was close to a TERRA BYTE, that was for 3/4 of a million patients, just how much paper do you want them to hold ?
for the hospital, as I have posted previously, it isn't just the patient / treatment that is needed, you need to have a bed, the cleaning rota needs to be updated, the nursing staff will need access to records and be updated of all the patients treatments as they occur
we're at the stage now where they can, just, cripple along without IT, but only as a temp measure, and yes, we DID manage once, without computers, but that was pre computers, and we had cottage hospitals, and a smaller population, and tech hadn't advanced to allow so many operations as 'basic' your standard hospital D/B will be many TB's in size, possibly needing PB's of associated storage, and the staff to maintain it, as well as access it to analyse the data
so maybe we should take off the gloves, find just ONE of the gangs, and eliminate them, let it be known that there IS a step that is too far, and once you cross it, you are no longer needed on this world
maybe a tad excessive, maybe it needs to be enhanced
but either way, we are now FIRMLY entrenched with IT with all the pros and cons that go with it
and yes, the data should have been better protected, full encryption and MFA to even look at the file structures, let alone access a file
but we live here and now, and possibly the quickest way to curtail this intrusive work IS to eliminate
don't come back with the case of FOREIGN agents, you breach these walls, ALL bets are off.
We can do better we need to do better, and if it costs some scum there ability to process oxygen, so be it
"so maybe we should take off the gloves, find just ONE of the gangs, and eliminate them, let it be known that there IS a step that is too far, and once you cross it, you are no longer needed on this world"
Yeah, like without a fair trial? And how do you propose to eliminate then? Hellfire through the window? 2000lb bomb on the roof? How would you ensure there are *no* collateral innocent casualties?
What level of evidence is required; 'we know it was this person base don intelligence"? Or absolute proof? What happens when innocent targets are killed?
See, thats the problem with knee-jerk responses like the above. Its 'fine' in theory, but the small details tend to get in the way, such as burden of proof and the deaths of innocents.
TBH, we had plenty of big hospitals before computers took over. These systems are designed for accountants and lawyers, not practitioners and patients.
What boggles my mind is that such incompetence is allowed to persist like this. There is literally no need for these systems to be exposed to the internet. But, the lawyers and accountants aren't perturbed yet, I suppose.
No, no, no. Vlad the Invader! ;) Impalement is to good for him and speaking as a person that has undergone chemo the people that did this. And speaking of impalement, or going off subject for just a moment, the first really explicit description of impalement that I ever read was in a book by Fred Saberhagen that was originally published as a trilogy and then condensed into one book called "Empire of the East". It was a rather interesting tale of magic and technology fighting each other for supremacy and the second fate of mankind. It has an introduction by Larry Niven and a prologue by Roger Zelazny to give it some pedigree. Strangely later printings, including the single book version leaves out the full impalement description, not for the faint of stomach, and I have been unable to find a copy of what I believe to be the first printing that does. The original books were published as "The Broken Lands", "The Black Mountains", and "ARDNEH's World".
Sooner or later they'll hit the 'wrong' group. People with real nasty contacts. Once the vids appear of the perps being maimed for life in truly horrible ways, the message will get through. Killing is too good for these scum. They need to go on living... very painfully.
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