Ransomware impacts over 200 government, education, healthcare orgs in 2022

guest · Jan 2, 2023

By Ionut Ilascu @Ionut_Ilascu - January 2, 2023

Ransomware attacks in 2022 impacted more than 200 hundred larger organizations in the U.S. public sector in the government, educational, and healthcare verticals.

Data collected from publicly available reports, disclosure statements, leaks on the dark web, and third-party intelligence show that hackers stole data in about half of these ransomware attacks.
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No clear picture on ransomware attacks
Based on available data, the ransomware threat in the U.S. struck 105 counties, 44 universities and colleges, 45 school districts, and 24 healthcare providers.

Cybersecurity company Emisoft compiled these statistics underlining that not all victims - less in the public and to a higher degree in the private sector - disclose such incidents and some of them may have missed the researchers.

“The reality is that nobody knows for sure whether the number of attacks are flat or trending up or down” - Emsisoft
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Emsisoft: The State of Ransomware in the US: Report and Statistics 2022

In 2021, following a series of high-profile incidents, the United States government appeared to have had enough, and decided to take ransomware seriously. Meetings were held, committees formed, and a general sense of urgency took shape around the threat. In 2022, we got to see how that would all play out – and, unfortunately, it was a case of same old, same old. The number of government, education and healthcare sector organizations impacted by ransomware this year was very similar to the number impacted in previous years.

105 local governments

44 universities and colleges

45 school districts operating 1,981 schools

24 healthcare providers operating 289 hospitals

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