Mississippi medical center closes all clinics after ransomware attack
University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) suffered a ransomware attack that forced closure of all clinic locations and impacted electronic medical records systems. The attack involved potential data theft and extortion demands, with UMMC coo...
My Take: Healthcare ransomware isn't news anymore—what matters here is that UMMC kept their hospital running through downtime procedures while closing clinics, which tells you they'd actually practiced this scenario. That's the difference between an organization that treats incident response as a binder on a shelf versus one that drills their people on paper charts and manual workflows.