Ardent Health Services ransomware attack disrupts hospital operations
Ardent Health Services suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted hospital operations in several US states and forced ambulances to be diverted to other hospitals. The company disclosed the IT security incident and fully restored its patient portal. It later filed a data breach notification.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Ardent Health
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disrupted hospital operations in several US states and ambulance diversions
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- Ardent Health Services disclosed the security incident, and ambulance diversions at hospitals in several states and the full restoration of its patient portal came to light.
- Disruptions to hospital operations caused by the ransomware attack came to light.
- It emerged that Ardent Health Services had filed a data breach notification following the ransomware attack.
Also affected by this incident
Mountainside Medical Center diverts emergency patients amid ransomware attack
↳ Knock-on damage from the Ardent Health incident · View original incidentImpact: Diversion of emergency patients
In the wake of the ransomware incident at Ardent Health, Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center diverted emergency patients to other hospitals. Emergency patient diversions were put in place at the emergency departments of two Hackensack Meridian hospitals; the specific extent of the damage and the timing of recovery have not been confirmed.
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