Cyberattack on Polish medical software provider exposes patient data
A cyberattack on a Polish healthcare software provider resulted in the theft of patient personal data, continuing a recent pattern of attacks targeting the country's medical sector.
Why this matters: Healthcare data is some of the most sensitive information that exists about a person. Patients do not choose to hand it over — they hand it over because they are sick and need help. When the software that runs clinics and hospitals gets hit, the damage does not stay with the company. It lands on patients who had no say in how their data was stored or protected. Poland's medical sector getting hit repeatedly suggests attackers have found a weak spot, and that is a problem that will keep producing victims until someone fixes it.
Who should care: Healthcare professionals · Privacy officers · Compliance · General readers · Policy
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