Ascension, the largest Catholic nonprofit hospital network in the U.S., has reported that only seven of its 25,000 servers have compromised following a ransomware attack last month, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Infiltration of the said servers, which are primarily used for daily and routine tasks, through a malicious file downloaded due to human error has enabled attackers to potentially obtain protected health information and personally identifiable information, said Ascension officials, who emphasized that the impacted systems were not linked to the hospital network’s electronic health record system.

Source: SC Magazine