Liberty Hospital has "significantly recovered" since cypersecurity incident
Patients' electronic health records are in use again, and digital functionality for equipment and applications has been restored.
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Patients' electronic health records are in use again, and digital functionality for equipment and applications has been restored.
A threat analyst for a cyber security company says hospitals are routinely being targeted for ransomware attacks.
A blackmail message from an apparent hacker appears to be the reason Liberty Hospital computer systems crashed Tuesday.
Three weeks ago the Japanese company was hacked, then blackmailed, by a group that threatened to publish very sensitive information. The group made good on their threat.
Until now, state officials had released few details, describing it simply as a “security incident.”