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The second largest hospital group in Nashville experienced a ransomware attack about two months ago. Nurses told me they were using manual processes for three w
by peterleiser 2y ago
The second largest hospital group in Nashville experienced a ransomware attack about two months ago. Nurses told me they were using manual processes for three weeks.
- ethbr1 2y agoAscension?
- peterleiser 2y agoYes. And I was told by multiple nurses at St. Thomas Midtown that the hospital did not have manual procedures already in place. In their press release they refer to their hospitals as "ministries" [0], so apparently they practice faith-based cyber security (as in "we believe that we don't need backups") since it took over 3 weeks to recover. [0] https://about.ascension.org/cybersecurity-event https://about.ascension.org/cybersecurity-event
- bufferoverflow 2y agoIt takes a certain type of a criminal a55hole to attack hospitals and blackmail them. I would easily support life or death penalty for anyone attempting this cr@p.
- peterleiser 2y agoIn this case it was tracked to Russia.
- uptownJimmy 2y agoThat is absolutely one of the A-tier "certain type of a criminal a55hole".
- bart_spoon 2y agoMore than just Nashville, they have hospitals all over the country.