ransomware

The state has reached a settlement in its lawsuit against a northwest Indiana medical company over a ransomware event that put personal and protected health information at risk. The agreement includes no admission of guilt on the behalf of the provider.

U.S. hospitals have seen a record number of cyberattacks in recent years. Such attacks can upend hospital operations, costing millions of dollars and putting patients' lives at risk.

All employees of the Indianapolis Housing Agency lost access to their email during the attack, which began weeks ago.

Some Eskenazi Health data was compromised in the ransomware attack earlier this month, according to a statement from hospital officials.

A cybersecurity company is helping the city of Gary rebuild its servers after hackers recently targeted several of them in a ransomware attack, a city spokesman said.

Some cybersecurity professionals are concerned that insurance policies designed to limit the damage of ransomware attacks might be encouraging hackers.

The virus attack hit the county's computers and server network July 6. Officials say a system shutdown prevented the virus from spreading to most of the county's computers.

The Indiana National Guard says a state, non-military computer server containing personal information on civilian and military Guard personnel was the target of a recent ransomware attack.

Hancock Health officials say patient safety was never at risk during a ransomware attack at the Greenfield hospital late last week.

The university has not detected any infected computers, but there have been efforts to infiltrate the virus into the IU network.