I bet it’s more like 10s of millions. And as others have pointed out good chance you don’t get your data back anyway.
Not good - UMMC feeling the pain...
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I have done a lot of "business" with UMC over the last several years and in the process dealt with many of their employees. I have yet (knock on wood) to meet one who wasn't kind and helpful from department heads on down . Hard to find that in big businesses of any kind these days these days.
I'll echo this. Recently had a family member suffer head trauma from an unexplained fall. UMMC delivered amazing care. Could not have been more impressed with the quality of care. Had the occasional nurse with a bad attitude (invariably overweight, white, man-less, bitter), but overall the care was exceptional. Had a 5 foot tall female Lebanese internal medicine doc who I would stack up against any specialist around. Me and Magnolia Hunter will be back-to-back at South Farm when any MFer who wants to bad mouth UMMC is ready.
All of the security is a productivity killer. The C-Suite and higher ups do not get this. They still want us to hit our utilization and efficiencies, but it is like we are standing on the gas and brake pedals at the same time. They know that if people care enough about their work, they'll just work overtime to make up for the time loss.
"No judgment"... only that MAGA people think Hitler is cool. Got it.
Literally had the thought this morning it should be claimed terrorist activity. One day, someone is going to figure out how to catch these thugs. And I hope they spend the rest of their lives in jail thinking about the fact that they probably could have named their price and lived an extremely comfortable life doing something legal and even ethical.
That’s what I hope, anyway.
Not all MAGA folks, but certainly some of them. Even the Heritage Foundation, the leading think tank of the MAGA movement, has argued that reasonable people can agree to disagree on whether Hitler "was good." They have to make those statements in order to keep the MAGA tent as wide as possible. You can't alienate the far right from the movement. Again, no judgement: It's just politics. You cannot argue with their success.
I’ve been to the VA hospital once (and it was recently). I thought i was in a horror movie. Halls leading to nowhere, room numbering that had zero logic and no one knows where anything is.
That was years ago. And honestly it was a colossal waste of money. 1, one, uno laptop got lost. UMMC KNEW that it did not contain any sensitive data on it. However, they did not have the technical controls on it to definitively prove that it did not have any data. Ask your IT friend about it. If he's been there long enough, he will confirm.Interesting:
Investigation reveals University of Mississippi Medical Center previously paid $2.75 million in federal fines for data security failures
ETA: It kind of boggles the mind that such a fine could be levied for such a minor event, but alas, 'tis so.
I’ve worked in four over the years, and not all are that bad. Varies a lot site to site
My sister has a joint appointment at a Med School and VA Center…
I’d think the medical school hospital would be better in many cases.
BTW, many years ago, I worked at Stanford University Hospital doing grunt work before coming back to Mississippi for graduate school. That was a part-time gig but then I also got a PT job at a lab near the Palo Alto VA…
I could get paid separately by the VA or by Stanford. I chose Stanford and became a full-time employee.
It was a Union gig— United Stanford Workers— but the guy who came by knew I wasn’t going to be there for long
If the cost of living weren’t quite so high, I’d stay there but 35+ years later, I’m in Mississippi…