Ransomware ‘attacks’ against health care providers, business associates and third-party administrators are not practice or geography or size specific. They can happen to any entity, not only a health care provider, at any time. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) describes ransomware as, “malicious software that blocks access to data—typically by encrypting it with a key known only to the attacker—until a ransom is paid.”…
By: Saul Ewing LLP
By: Saul Ewing LLP
