Bitmarck & health insurance companies: There are still failures
More than 2 months ago, the IT provider for dozens of health insurance companies and company health insurance companies, Bitmarck, was hit by a cyber attack. Entire data centers even had to be shut down. The repairs are still ongoing. The attack on the IT service provider Bitmarck was so severe that in the first few weeks hardly any company health insurance could be contacted normally. Usually only hastily installed emergency numbers worked. E-mail communication and access to patient files was not possible at all. However, the repairs seem to be progressing quickly. At least many cash registers can now be reached normally again. However, the website of the cash registers still reports restrictions,…