Wickenburg Community Hospital Data Breach (2019)

The cyber-attack affected hospital and clinic phone systems, allowing outbound calls but not inbound calls and, shared files were not accessible. According to information provided by the FBI, suspected Ryuk ransomware encrypts files on network shares and an infected computer’s file system. Once a system is compromised, the attacker encrypts all the network’s files and demands a ransom to be paid in cryptocurrency. “