A Twin Cities company handling private patient data and images for over 20 area hospitals and clinics experienced a cyber attack on Super Bowl Sunday. However, they believe they thwarted the attack before any confidential information was compromised.
Consulting Radiologists Ltd (CRL), the company in question, swiftly intervened to prevent a full-scale attack, although there was a temporary interruption in services. CRL provides image interpretation services such as x-rays, CT scans, and MRIs for health systems, impacting different systems differently based on their size.
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CRL is currently investigating the extent of the attack, but they assert that no data or personal information appears to have been compromised. Cybersecurity expert Mark Lanterman suggests that such attacks on healthcare companies often involve ransom demands, but his search in online hacker marketplaces yielded no evidence of this particular attack, supporting the belief that patient information and images remained secure.
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