State lawmakers have promised to help prevent cyber ransomware attacks after the computer systems of a Brooklyn hospital system and Suffolk County government were disabled by hackers last year.
It comes after a wave of such attacks hit institutions across the Empire State, with the computer systems of a major“This is a top item on my agenda for 2023,” said Steven Otis, chairman of the Assembly Science and Technology Committee.
“I am especially sensitive to local government and school districts being targets of ransomware attacks,” said Otis. “We have to get into prevent mode.”in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the number of ransomware attacks against hospitals and other medical institutions more than doubled from 2016 to 2021 — from 43 to 91 nationally, and that figure is likely under-reported.
Hospitals are among the top targets of hackers because of all the personal information they have stored about patients. The computer database systems for Brooklyn One Health System containing private patient information and medical records. The hospital network — which includes Brookdale, Interfaith and Kingsbrook Jewish hospitals — was forced to go back to a manual system of pen and paper.
The hacking forced Interfaith Medical Center and other hospitals in the system to have to use a manual system for records.Hackers also breached a Suffolk County web server in a cyberattack on Sept. 8, 2022, demanding a $2.5 million ransom. An investigation found that the hackers had initially breached Suffolk’s database in December 2021, exploiting a flaw in the software and remaining there for nine months before posting a ransomware note demanding $2.5 million.
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