CEO SUMMARY: Class action lawsuits filed by patients whose protected health information (PHI) was breached during a cyber attack may be one additional unwelcome consequence for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups hit by a ransomware or cyber attack. This is what happened to ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics. An expert offers […]
Expert Lists Strategies to Cope with Cyber Attacks
Details of ransomware attack on Quest subsidiary serve as latest warning for clinical laboratories
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXIX, No. 1 - January 10, 2022 Issue
- Tags: CVE-2021- 44228, cyber attack, cyber security, CynergisTek, data encryption, Emily Johnson, Encryption attack, Federal Trade Commission, firewall, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, HIPAA, lab risk & compliance, Log4J, Mac McMillan, McDonald Hopkins, PHI, protected health information, Quest Diagnostics, ransomware, ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics, Target, U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, Wired
