CSOonline

Ransomware, healthcare and incident response: Lessons from the Allscripts attack

The actors behind SamSam launched a devastating attack against Allscripts in January, 2018. As Allscripts worked its incident response plan, things started to unravel. Here are the lessons learned. On ...
HHS

Allscripts Lawsuit: What Makes It Different?

A class action lawsuit filed against Allscripts in the wake of a ransomware attack that recently disrupted patient care at hundreds of healthcare practices will spotlight a variety of critical ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Here’s how Allscripts recovered from its January ransomware attack: 12 takeaways

In January, Allscripts clients were locked out of their cloud-based EHRs for days when the security operations center was crippled by a ransomware variant known as SamSam — a favorite among hackers ...
CSOonline

Customers describe the impact of the Allscripts ransomware attack

A ransomware attack against a SaaS provider hurts customers, but when it’s a healthcare company that’s hit, patients suffer. Such was the case with January’s attack against Allscripts, one of the ...