{"id":393,"date":"2016-02-23T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/02\/23\/data-security-trend-health-data-held-hostage-for-ransom-is-it-a-crime\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:40:00","slug":"data-security-trend-health-data-held-hostage-for-ransom-is-it-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/data-security-trend-health-data-held-hostage-for-ransom-is-it-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Security Trend: Health Data Held Hostage for Ransom. Is it a crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The question for Texas, does holding business data hostage constitute a crime?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did data get held hostage?<\/strong>\u00a0In California<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was the data held hostage?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;malicious &#8220;ransomware&#8221; application to encrypt data on the hospital\u2019s computer system, demanding payment in exchange for a decryption key&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What type of business?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center\u00a0\u00a0patient input information\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the hackers want?<\/strong>\u00a0$17,000 worth of bitcoin was paid to retrieve an encryption code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where patients harmed?<\/strong>\u00a0No patient records or hospital care was impacted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/269863-ransomed-hospital-pays-17k-to-hackers-to-restore-computer-access\">The Hill \u00a0Ransomed hospital pays $17K to hackers to restore computer access<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The question for Texas, does holding business data hostage constitute a crime?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did data get held hostage?<\/strong>\u00a0In California<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was the data held hostage?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;malicious &#8220;ransomware&#8221; application to encrypt data on the hospital\u2019s computer system, demanding payment in exchange for a decryption key&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What type of business?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center\u00a0\u00a0patient input information\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the hackers want?<\/strong>\u00a0$17,000 worth of bitcoin was paid to retrieve an encryption&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-trend","category-data-privacy","category-health-care-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}