KnowBe4 - Center for Orthopaedic Specialists notifies 85,000 patients of ransomware infection

Another indicator that a ransomware infection is seen as a HIPAA data breach and needs to be reported.

The Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) in California has three locations in West Hills, Simi Valley and Westlake Village. COS has been notifying 85,000 current and former patients of a ransomware attack on their unnamed IT vendor in February.

Love their tagline, but It’s probably going to need to be changed after this.  From their April 18 notice on their web site: 


from KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Blog https://blog.knowbe4.com/center-for-orthopaedic-specialists-notifies-85000-patients-of-ransomware-infection