The College of Nurses of Ontario says it has made 'significant progress' restoring its systems and data after hackers crippled its website, but it would not reveal whether the personal data of 195,000 nurses and its 300 staff was compromised in the attack. The province's nursing regulator discovered the targeted ransomware attack almost a month ago when some of the data appeared to be stolen by the hackers, including "human resources" and "human rights matters." Angela Smith, the communications advisor for the College of Nurses of Ontario, wrote in an email that the nursing regulator was not cowed by the threat and has since made progress in restoring its systems knocked out in the attack. "We have made significant progress in restoring our data and systems from our backup files, and we have not paid a ransom," she wrote in an email to CBC News Friday. Smith also said the regulator has regained the ability to process new nursing applications, which it was unable to do during the outage, potentially delaying new nurses starting new jobs and costing them pay.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2020 09:56 UTC