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Aug 4 2023
07:27 pm
Hackers force hospital system to take its national computer system offline
By: jbr

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.

Hackers force hospital system to take its national computer system offline

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fischbobber's picture

Local Healthcare infrastructure

Submitted by fischbobber on Sat, 2023/08/05 - 9:25am.

I've been spending my time lately trying to cross-reference covid numbers to see if there's any way to predict hospital admissions (and mortality) to current first line covid numbers. It quickly became apparent that our local healthcare systems are at the edge of what they're able to do without proper staffing.

Something like this could effectively shut us down. Pay attention to what happened in Alabama.

bizgrrl's picture

What happened in Alabama?

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sat, 2023/08/05 - 10:01am.
(in reply to fischbobber)

What happened in Alabama?

fischbobber's picture

A child died.

Submitted by fischbobber on Sat, 2023/08/05 - 1:55pm.
(in reply to bizgrrl)

The malfunction created a situation where medical services were compromised. The parents are claiming lack of proper security measures led to the baby's death, as I understand it. It was in the article, I believe.

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