Ransomware, Cyberattacks, and Hacking in the Health Care Industry: Lessons from a Letter to the FBI

April 14, 2016  |  The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement

The last several weeks have brought a host of alarming revelations regarding the vulnerability of some of the most confidential data that corporations and legal entities maintain on their servers. Most notably, the story of the so-called “Panama Papers” continues to attract substantial media attention, as the theft of approximately 2.6 terabytes of data from the Panamaian law firm Mossack Fonseca, and its disclosure to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has already caused the resignation of one international leader and threaten the fates of several more. Perhaps less provocative, but no less significant, is a recent Wall Street Journal article reporting that hackers illegally accessed the computer networks at some of the most respected and prestigious law firms in the United States, apparently for the purpose of stealing confidential information that in turn can facilitate insider trading. [...]

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