The computer system for the Yuma Regional Medical Center has been down for two days. It is extremely difficult to obtain any medical records or to accomplish the simplest medical procedure.
All has been shut down because of a cyber attack.
From YRMC press release on Facebook :
YUMA, Ariz. (April 26, 2022) – Out of an abundance of caution, following an attempted cyber attack that occurred on Monday afternoon, all YRMC computers systems were powered down and moved into downtime mode, which is a manual process. Effective blocks to the attempted attack have resulted in no patient information being compromised. As of Tuesday 3pm, YRMC continues to operate in a manual / downtime mode as systems are deemed secure.
The attack is having more repercussions than deemed by the press release. Sources have informed this correspondent almost nothing is can to be done, as professionals cannot obtain needed patient information, signed releases, or input any information into the system.
A few days earlier, there was a breach in this North Dakota system.
Adaptive Health Integrations faced a hacking incident that impacted 510,574 individuals, according to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach portal. The incident was the third-largest reported healthcare data breach in 2022 so far.This warning was issued on April 1, 2022.
In February, the day after Vladmir Putin ordered his forces to invade Ukraine, a notorious Russian cybercrime group called Conti announced online that they would target “the critical infrastructures” of any nations attempting to thwart Russia’s military actions. A week later, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a warning stating that Conti has specifically attacked health care institutions in the past.
There does not seem to be any national news of attacks. Readers are asked to include any local news they know of in the comments.
Dean Weingarten
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