Lurie Children’s Hospital has been demanded by the Rhysida ransomware-as-a-service operation to provide more than $3.4 million worth of bitcoin as ransom to prevent the sale of data stolen from a cyberattack earlier this month, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Such an attack has prompted Lurie Children’s, which is among the largest pediatric healthcare providers across the Midwest, to take down its entire network and leverage manual processes that have led to prolonged waiting times as it continues working on recovering impacted systems, including its MyChart electronic records system.

Source: SC Magazine