New York-based Refuah Health Center has been compelled by state Attorney General Letitia James to allocate more than $1.2 million to strengthen its cybersecurity posture through more robust patient data security, multi-factor authentication, and semi-annual security audits, as part of its settlement of a Lorenz ransomware attack in May 2021 that compromised the data of over 260,740 individuals, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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