Financially motivated cybercriminals are increasingly targeting health-care organizations worldwide. (Credit: volodyar/Adobe Stock) Financially motivated cybercriminals are increasingly targeting health-care organizations worldwide. (Credit: volodyar/Adobe Stock)

(Bloomberg) — In June of 2023, a Russian cybercrime gang called BlackCat hacked the Barts Health NHS Trust, a part of the UK's National Health Service that operates several hospitals in London, and published some of it online in an extortion attempt.

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