As the Supreme Court hears the case that will decide the fate of abortion in America, Planned Parenthood has been the subject of yet another attack by hackers
among anti-abortion groups, has been the victim of a hack that has breached 400,000 patients’ personal medical information., the hack only affected the Los Angeles branch of Planned Parenthood, but that was enough for the private medical information of hundreds of thousands of people to fall into the hands of hackers, though Planned Parenthood spokesperson John Erickson maintains that “there is no indication at this point that the information was “used for fraudulent purposes.
Apparently, the hack came via ransomware, which locks owners out of their own computer systems and files until they pay their extortionists, a particularly insidious move when those owners include medical providers who need that information for the health of their patients: “Ransomware is a malicious computer code that hackers deploy to block an organization’s access to its own computer network to extort a ransom. Erickson did not immediately respond to questions about whether PPLA paid a ransom and how malware affected its systems.”
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