Waiting on WannaCry
Audrey was 31 when a knee injury collided with WannaCry, one of the most disruptive ransomware attacks in NHS history. What she couldn’t have known was that the attack would leave her waiting far longer for a diagnosis than the injury itself warranted.
Identity, Sold Forever
A credit card arrived in the mail that Ashley never applied for—the first sign that someone had opened accounts in her name: credit cards, phones, a line of credit, even a bank account. She reported it everywhere she could, but her fight for justice was met with a wall of complacency, one institution after another calling it a “victimless crime.”
Nurse’s Stolen Identity
A data breach at her hospital employer sat undetected for years—until Leslie logged in to file her taxes and found someone else’s bank details on her account. What came next: benefits frozen through the pandemic, a fraud charge for children she’d never had, and a small-town police force telling her that identity theft was out of their jurisdiction.
Patient’s Delayed Surgery
Her first surgery had gone wrong, leaving a life-threatening condition untreated and her heart failing. The follow-up procedure was postponed when a ransomware attack took the hospital’s systems down. As weeks stretched into months, her congestive heart failure worsened.