Breaches and incidents
Community Medical Center (Falls City, Nebraska): cyberattack locks down hospital network, critical patients diverted
MSC News reported that the hospital was attacked over the weekend, that the attack reached “some of the business files and other areas”, the computer...
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- Reported by a reputable outlet, citing the company
What happened
- MSC News reported that the hospital was attacked over the weekend, that the attack reached “some of the business files and other areas”, the computer system was locked down, and ambulances took critical patients elsewhere because images could not be transmitted to radiologists; the emergency room stayed open.
- Root cause: not disclosed.
- MSC News reported that the Qilin group, which it called Russian-affiliated, accessed some areas of the network; no hospital statement naming the group was quoted directly.
- MSC News reported that patient information was not compromised and that an entire new computer network is being deployed; CEO Ryan Larsen said cyberattack attempts “are nothing new for the hospital.”