Hospital operator Community Health Systems said acyberattacktook information on around 4.5 million patients from its computer network earlier this year. The Franklin, Tennessee, company said Monday that no medical or credit card records were taken in the attack, which may have happened in April and...
“I want to applaud everyone at HealthAlliance Hospital, Margaretville Hospital and Mountainside Residential Care Center for all of their hard work and dedication while facing an incredibly difficult situation, helping us return to full operations sooner than expected while continuing to provide ...
This attack on a UK hospital's IT system isn't the first, and the British government has announced plans to combat such attacks by spending £1.9 billion to enhance cybersecurity. Medical facilities are particularly susceptible to cyberattacks due to
In a hospital, the stakes are always high. With lives on the line, clinicians work tirelessly to protect patient health. But what happens when a cyberattack disrupts mission-critical operations? Patient care is delayed. Digital operations are halted. Data access gets restricted. The risk of ...
"Our computer systems are down with the outage affecting all Waterbury Health inpatient and outpatient operations," Prospect Medical's hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, posted on its Facebook page. "We are in the process of reevaluating our downtime capabilities and may reschedule some appointments...
Some procedures and operations have been cancelled or have been redirected to other NHS providers as hospital bosses continue to establish what work can be carried out safely. One patient, Oliver Dowson, 70, was prepared for an operation from 6am on Monday at Royal Brompton when he was tol...
University Hospital Brno is used to test patients for coronavirus infections - cyberattack halts the operations. The second-largest hospital in the Czech Republic was hit
Peter Maurer said the ICRC is increasingly concerned about the destructive effects of cyber operations that cut off electricity supplies andwater systemsin war-affected countries and halted hospital services in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as "an attempted attack against a petrochemica...
The leading hospital in India's capital limped back to normalcy on Wednesday after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks. Online registration of patients resumed Tuesday after the hospital was able to access its server and recover lost data. The hospital worked withfederal auth...
Major London hospitals cancelled some operations on Tuesday after a cyber-attack on a key service supplier had a "major impact", particularly on blood transfusions, the National Health Service (NHS) said.