Update: Patient privacy “not compromised or breached” during Melbourne Heart Group ransomware attack

Melbourne Heart Group has announced that no patient data was compromised in a recent ransomware attack on its systems at the Cabrini Hospital. The company stated that the attack has now been resolved and the data decrypted, with no records leaving the system. The incident did not involve Cabrini records as the systems affected are owned and managed by Melbourne Heart Group. The health sector in Australia has experienced a high number of data breaches, with malicious and criminal attacks being a major source of breaches.