Luminis Health (Maryland): network-wide incident disrupts patient portal and phones

What happened

• Luminis Health (Anne Arundel Medical Center, Doctors Community Medical Center) suffered a cybersecurity incident that disrupted many network systems; Konbriefing reports patient rerouting and postponed treatments. Its 8 Oct update says systems have been restored, phones are back, MyChart is available, both EDs are open and surgeries continue; some downtime-period results may not yet show in MyChart.
• Root cause / initial access: not disclosed; Luminis does not say ransomware. An earlier FAQ said the patient-records system was not affected.
• Attacker: not identified.
• Response: third-party experts, staged validated restoration, notification if data is found affected.

Sources

• https://www.luminishealth.org/en/cybersecurity-incident-update
• https://konbriefing.com/en-topics/cyber-attacks-usa.html

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