A group of Russian hackers are reportedly holding medical records of an Australian Clinic hostage and demanding a ransom of Australian $400 million. The cyber criminals hacked into the server of the clinic and encrypted the records and demanding ransom to release the decryption key.
The incident highlights the risk of neglecting information security in an organizational environment particularly if the organization holds sensitive data.
It appears that the clinic is in a vulnerable state since it does not seem to have an effective backup again a failure of a proper Information Assurance program.
Naavi
