Wai Phyo Aung_ransomware attack Frederick Health

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A brief description

A Ransomware attack was happened on 27,Jan,2025 in Maryland-based Frederick Health organization. The attacker disrupted the IT system of the healthcare organization and reported the results of their patients to another neighboring hospital. Here is the link;
1) https://www.frederickhealth.org/notice/
2) Link

Impact of this data breach, Consequences of the data breach

They found that unauthorized party gained access to their network and copied files from a file shared server. The impact might be unpredictable because the information were patients’ individual records. The attacker could be blackmailing. The reputation of healthcare organization will be bad and it may affect financial status as well.

How the data breach occur

Attacker find the weak point of their IT system and gained access to their network.
The main cause of data breach will be vulnerabilities of the system especially external and internal sites. In the cases of Frederick, there might be hacking from external surface like patient appointment schedule from online booking system. The attacker will try to gain to invade the IT system by using the weak point.

Prevention and Control

The preventive measures are continuous monitoring of the server by using system to exploit the unusual ads or hacking the network. The second way is controlling and upgrading of the internal configuration like asset inventory and range defining, MFA, using password to access the device.

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