Source 1 | 2022-11-30
“Some systems at One Brooklyn Health System's three hospitals - Interfaith Medical Center, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center - were taken offline Nov. 19 following an incident about which little is publicly known. “
“Sources tell Information Security Media Group that the organization has been tight-lipped with other area hospitals about the cause of the outage, which is suspected to involve ransomware. One Brooklyn Chief Executive Officer LaRay Brown said in a Wednesday statement that the cybersecurity incident caused a network disruption and that "immediately upon discovering the incident, we took certain systems offline to contain the disruption."“
“A One Brooklyn Health System employee tells Information Security Media Group that the incident caused hospital phone systems to randomly call patient and emergency contact phone numbers to inform them broadly that the organization is dealing with a "network outage" but that appointments have not been canceled. “
“Brown tells ISMG in her follow up email that "a small percentage of emergency department patient transfers that have occurred since Nov. 19 because of the IT incident." “
Source 2 | 2022-12-15
“All patient information is backed up, Scott said, but the attack has caused chaos across the healthcare system. “We were forced to handwrite some 6,000 prescriptions,” she said, unsure of when the issue might be resolved.“
““Why wasn’t there a back-up plan in place from the very beginning of this cyber attack?” he asked, adding that the hackers are reportedly seeking $5 million in ransom. “
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