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Chicago Children’s Hospital Confirms Cyber Threat Activity

February 13, 2024 - UPDATE 2/13/24 - This article has been updated to reflect new information about the cyberattack on Lurie Children's Hospital.  Lurie Children's Hospital has entered its third week of downtime following a cyber incident that began on January 31. The latest update provided to patients confirmed that the hospital's network was...

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EHRs are poised to remain a crucial part of the healthcare industry, but the exploitation of patient data casts a shadow over its benefits. A recent HHS threat brief emphasized the need for healthcare...

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by Jill McKeon

Hospitals across the country are experiencing IT outages, delays, and appointment cancellations as CommonSpirit Health works to resolve an IT security incident. As previously reported, CommonSpirit...

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CommonSpirit Health confirmed that it has been suffering IT outages as a result of an unspecified IT security incident that began on October 3. The incident is impacting multiple facilities within the...

KY Hospital Systems Still Down 1 Week After Cybersecurity Incident

by Jill McKeon

Systems remain down at Taylor Regional Hospital (TRH) in Campbellsville, Kentucky more than a week after a cybersecurity incident. The hospital has not confirmed whether the incident was a...

Compromised Medical Records, Ransomware Attacks Trouble Healthcare

by Jill McKeon

Holiday ransomware attacks, compromised medical records, and network outages continue to overwhelm healthcare organizations. Despite an increase in cyber threats, recent research suggested that 42...

Recent Health Data Breaches Cause EHR Downtime, Deploy Malware

by Jill McKeon

Health data breaches continue to plague the healthcare sector, leading to EHR downtime and patient data leaks. While ransomware and phishing are obvious threats to the healthcare sector, instances of...

Healthcare Cyberattack Leaves a System’s Network Down in IN

by Jill McKeon

Indiana-based Johnson Memorial Health announced that it fell victim to a healthcare cyberattack on Saturday, October 2. The health system’s computer network is still down and the FBI is...

St. Joseph’s/Candler Faces Lawsuits in Wake of Ransomware Attack

by Jill McKeon

Two class action lawsuits were filed against St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) alleging that the large Georgia health system was negligent in preventing a December 2020 ransomware attack that went...

AZ Ransomware Attack Leads to Unrecoverable EHRs, Data Loss

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Arizona-based Queen Creek Medical Center, also known as Desert Wells Family Medicine, will have to rebuild patient medical records from scratch after a ransomware attack corrupted and destroyed EHRs....

Healthcare Ransomware Attack Leads to EHR Downtime in IN

by Jill McKeon

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UVM Health Continues to Feel Effects of Ransomware Attack

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The University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network fell victim to a ransomware attack in late October, and recent reports reveal that the network is still working to recuperate after losing upwards of $63...

UF Health Cyberattack Now Affecting Patient Care

by Jill McKeon

A May 31st cyberattack on the University of Florida Health Leesburg Hospital and The Villages Regional Hospital led to EHR downtime, forcing clinicians to use pen and paper to document patient care....

Sky Lakes Medical: A First-Hand Look at Fall Ransomware Attack, Recovery

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The FBI began investigating a wave of targeted ransomware attacks against at least a dozen US hospitals, health systems, and healthcare providers in October 2020. Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon was...

Cyberattack Drives 2 UF Health Hospitals to EHR Downtime

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A cyberattack on the University of Florida Health The Villages Regional Hospital and Leesburg Hospital has driven clinicians to EHR downtime procedures as its leadership investigates the ongoing...

Scripps Reports Data Theft, EHR Back Online, but Global Outages Persist

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Scripps Health has restored the majority of its network and brought its Epic EHR back online, four weeks after falling victim to a ransomware attack, according to a May 27 status update.  The...

Cyberattack Updates: Alaska Health Dept, Scripps’ Recovery, Ireland HSE

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In the last week, an FBI alert and a Check Point repott reiterated what many in the healthcare sector have known for some time: Ransomware threat actors are consistently targeting and successfully...

Healthcare Ransomware Outages: Scripps, Ireland HSE, and NZ Hospitals

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Healthcare remains a key target for ransomware hacking groups, as seen in recent research data and multiple hospital system outages. Scripps Health is continuing recovery efforts two weeks after an...

Scripps Health EHR, Patient Portal Still Down After Ransomware Attack

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