![]() The pro-Russian Killnet group that is behind the attacks claims that it has exfiltrated data from unnamed hospitals, which would be a much more important development.įrom Ibis: “Re: HIMSS Accelerate. It’s the technology equivalent of angry truck drivers clogging up highways to bring attention to their plight, except that most hospitals aren’t going to suffer much from lack of website availability. Taking a website offline via a DDoS attack is like spray-painting your name on a hospital’s billboard – the hospital IT folks can bring it back quickly to restore their few mission-important functions (like paying bills or scheduling appointments). The hospitals aren’t admitting that they were breached.” Probably because they weren’t. Readers, what say you about virtuous circles and flywheels in particular and the use of descriptive graphics in general?įrom Fry Salter: “Re: hospital websites taken down by Killnet hackers. Company investor pitches are of the “never is heard a discouraging word” variety except for the 2-point font “forward-looking statements” section that is mostly ignored because it is as entirely negative as the rest of the slide deck is positive. ![]() Whether it is inevitable or aspirational probably depends on who is displaying it and for what reason. Is it persuasive?” The virtuous circle (or cycle), as the opposite of a vicious circle, refers to a recurring series of events in which each positively improves the effect of the next as a never-ending cycle of good news. Health Catalyst uses a happy-flywheel graphic, albeit without inclusion of the textual ‘virtuous circle’ claim that was used by aggressive e-commerce vendors. A company spokesperson responded to my inquiry by saying that while Kyruus is streamlining operations in integrating three organizations under the Kyruus umbrella, it will not comment on specific changes.įrom Krill Feeder: “Re: more slide decks from the J.P. Seventy people were let to Wednesday morning.” Unverified, but layoffs were reported by several now-former employees on LinkedIn. The company responded to his inquiry by insisting that it isn’t a problem because it is tracking such use as required by its new compliance obligations.įrom SeekingEmployment: “Re: Kyruus. ![]() The only information that was shared was IP address and website URLs of content that the user reviewed, with confidentiality agreements in place.Ī follow-up tweet from the author of the GoodRx article linked to above says that despite the permanent ban, GoodRx is still sending health data to advertisers.The company disputes the charge that it violated the Health Breach Notification Rule, saying that it believes its use of the advertising pixel was compliant. ![]()
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