Paul Sisson reports:
Though Tri-City Medical Center got its operations back up and running 17 days ago, ransomware extortion efforts appear to be ongoing against the Oceanside hospital.
Earlier this week, a cybersecurity expert noted in a message on X, formerly called Twitter, that “INC RANSOM”, a well known group of cyber extortionists, announced its possession of records stolen from the health care provider on the dark web, an anonymous corner of the Internet where such information is often bought and sold.
The post includes “proof” in the form of eight printed pages presumably taken from Tri-City during the digital attack that severely impacted the public hospital district’s operations starting on Nov. 9. On Nov. 27, the organization reported that it had once again started accepting all ambulance traffic and was conducting elective surgeries postponed during the attack.
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