You Can Be Sure The ADHA Is Watching This Data Breach With Some Concern!

This appeared very recently. Personal health data remains secure after ransomware attack, says Saskatchewan’s eHealth CEO Pragya Sehgal@itworldca  Published: January 8th, 2020The computer system storing confidential health data of the residents of Saskatchewan was attacked over the weekend, disrupting a number of eHealth Saskatchewan ’s services, according to eHealth’s website. The attack on eHealth, which leads all IT services for the Saskatchewan Health Authority, began Sunday morning and is now being examined by the employees of eHealth, Cisco Systems and Microsoft. Jim Hornell, chief executive officer of eHealth Saskatc hewan, told the CBC that eHealth staff is assessing 110 servers that may have been attacked. eHealth said it’s unaware of the amount of time it will take to fix the issue and resume normal operations. Patient data is secure and no information has been stolen, according to Hornell. The CBC articl e went on to say that some of the information on the company’s... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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