Providence Hospital restores medical records after Ascension attack fallout
SpilloverSpillover from the Ascension incident · View original incident →Following the cyber-attack on Ascension, USA Health Providence Hospital's electronic medical records system experienced an outage. The hospital's electronic medical records system was later restored.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- USA Health Providence Hospital
- Original incident
- Ascension ransomware attack exposes medical data of 5.6 million
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Electronic medical records system outage
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack on Ascension
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- It emerged that USA Health Providence Hospital's electronic medical records system had been restored following the Ascension cyber-attack.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Ascension incident.
Ascension ransomware attack exposes medical data of 5.6 million
5.6mImpact: Medical information of 5.6 million people leaked and clinical operations disrupted
US healthcare organisation Ascension was hit by a ransomware attack in May 2024, disrupting clinical operations and access to electronic health records and forcing it to suspend some non-emergency procedures. It was confirmed that an employee had mistakenly downloaded a malicious file and that data had been leaked in a Black Basta ransomware attack. Access to electronic health records was restored in some regions in June, and it was later confirmed that the medical information of 5.6 million people had been leaked. In September 2025, a court ruled to allow a related class action to proceed.
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