Ransomware attack causes system-wide outage at healthcare network
A large healthcare network was hit by a ransomware attack that caused a system-wide technology outage. The provider treats 840,000 patients a year and struggled to recover for weeks after the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Technology system outage across the healthcare network
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- The ransomware attack on the healthcare network and the system-wide technology outage became known.
- It was reported that the healthcare provider, which treats 840,000 patients a year, was responding to the ransomware attack.
- Operational difficulties persisted weeks after the attack.
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