Amid recent reports of hackers targeting and blackmailing healthcare systems and even patients, the FBI and other agencies have issued a warning of "imminent" cyberattacks on more US hospitals.
The health system also announced that it would be diverting ambulances from HealthAlliance Hospital to other facilities and “making decisions on whether to discharge current HealthAlliance Hospital patients to their homes or facilitate transfers to other hospitals within the WMCHealth Network.”...
Hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers are getting stuck in an insurance processing logjam after UnitedHealth Group disclosed a cyberattack within a recently acquired subsidiary that serves as a central hub for payments across the industry. The cyberattack and subsequent system outage ...
Callow believes the government should ban cyberattack victims such as hospitals, local governments and schools from paying ransoms. "There's so much money being paid into the ransomware system now there's no way the problem is going to simply go away on itself," he said. The dramatic increa...
Key computer systems at hospitals and clinics in several states have yet to come back online more than two weeks after a cyberattack that forced some emergency room shutdowns and ambulance diversions.
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records.
The hospital said emergency rooms remained open, and no patients were diverted to other hospitals. It said no records were deleted or destroyed thanks to the system’s back-up and recovery processes. The statement did not include any further information about the attack. ...
Health Ministry, National Cyber Directorate investigating ransomware attack on Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, which may have included large-scale theft of patient information; surgeries and patient treatment continue as scheduled
Ascension, a major U.S. health care system with 140 hospitals in 19 states, announced late Thursday that a cyberattack has caused disruptions at some of its hospitals. "Systems that are currently unavailable include ourelectronic healthrecords system, MyChart (which enables patients to view their...
Cyber attacks on hospitals in Germany and the US have also disabled their systems — forcing them to reschedule some procedures and temporarily divert patients to other facilities until the systems were brought back online. And, in anothercase, in Finland, the confidential records of thousands of ...