Posted on 08/06/2023 9:08:34 AM PDT by EBH
Prospect Medical Holdings, a chain that owns hospitals, as well as more than 165 outpatient facilities, said ransomware hackers had breached its system.
Sixteen hospitals and more than a hundred other medical facilities across the United States are offline after the largest cyberattack on a U.S. hospital system since last year.
Prospect Medical Holdings, a chain that owns hospitals, as well as more than 165 outpatient facilities, in California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island has taken its main computer network offline, a spokesperson said Friday.
The company first took its national computer systems offline Tuesday after discovering a ransomware attack, said Nina Kruse, a spokesperson for the Eastern Connecticut Health Network, which is owned by Prospect. As is common with cyberattacks on hospitals, doctors and nurses are reverting to procedures like using pen and paper instead of computers to take patient records, she said.
Some outpatient facilities have closed because of the attacks, including radiology, diagnostic and heart health facilities in Connecticut, according to the Facebook pages and websites for Prospect Medical affiliates.
The Prospect hack is the 157th cyberattack on a U.S. health care organization this year, said Allan Liska, a ransomware analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Liska said it is also the largest since October 2021, when a ransomware attack prompted CommonSpirit Health, a chain of more than 140 hospitals, to temporarily halt computer operations across the country.
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Oh no, gotta move all the medical data to the secure gov blockchain to prevent this.
It would be nice if we knew which hospitals in each state with problems.
Just look it up ...https://www.pmh.com/locations/hospitals/
If every medical entity were to go offline FOREVER, I’d be comfortable with that. Paper files, Baby.
yeah, I have not been too thrilled with the change we had under Obama and shared medical records...
Just do not like all my bio stuff floating out there
I may be nobody, but I am my nobody
So when are they paying for the HIPAA violations for allowing this breach?
Exactly.
I have an odd last name (married name).
About 15 years ago I saw my doctor and he asked me how I was getting along with my XXXXX. I freaked out! What?! My XXXX? I never had that.
After about a week of ME (they didn’t care) investigating, I learned that they had co-mingled some of MY health records and info with my husband’s sister’s info. She wasn’t married, so had his last name.
Instead of them entering data based on a unique identifying number, they just went for a last name match. By that time, she had died after not living the most upstanding life.
After that, I had no use for computerized medical records.
Yup—between Covid vaccine fascism and blatantly insecure computerized records I have seen enough...
I have joined the Luddite team.
Computerized systems are great when they work. When they don’t, it’s a disaster because people depend entirely on the system and have no backup plan.
Watch what happens with “self driving” cars and artificial “intelligence.”
Look at that. The Jolly Roger had to shut down their computer system. Forgive my glee. When the computer system in a hospital goes down people forget the ancillary areas of the hospital that are totally disrupted. So glad I retired and don’t have to deal with that crap anymore.
They have backup plans but unfortunately not enough people to implement them. Then the peons trying to do the work of 10 people get their ass handed to them when the TAT(turn around time) has quadrupled.
What would be the motive of the hackers?
Probably need to “reorganize” their IT department.
“national computer” ...so much for “HPIAA”.....
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