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Patient Care at Risk as Hospitals Increasingly on Frontlines of Ransomware Attacks

A threat analyst says hospitals are an especially attractive target due to the urgency in needing to resume life-saving care.
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Patient Care at Risk as Hospitals Increasingly on Frontlines of Ransomware Attacks
Nurses care for a patient in the intensive care unit in a file photo. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Matthew Lysiak
By Matthew Lysiak
9/29/2023Updated: 9/29/2023
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A surge of ransomware attacks at hospitals across America are posing a serious risk to both important hospital infrastructure and patient care, according to industry leaders and cybersecurity experts.

On Wednesday, University of Vermont Medical Center President and COO Stephen Leffler testified before a congressional panel on how a ransomware attack in October 2020 placed the medical facility in a state of crisis.
Matthew Lysiak
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Matthew Lysiak is a nationally recognized journalist and author of “Newtown” (Simon and Schuster), “Breakthrough” (Harper Collins), and “The Drudge Revolution.” The story of his family is the subject of the series “Home Before Dark” which premiered April 3 on Apple TV Plus.
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