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Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals (www.cnn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The healthcare industry has as much incentive as the financial industry to maintain a high security environment. Fines for exposing PHI can be astronomical if a large number of records are compromised.

This is a new cold war that we've been in for a while now. Government backed hacker groups from foreign nations are constantly targeting high profile organizations. Healthcare, Finance, and Government are three of the top targets.