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Related: About this forumIt's getting serious folks. They went after The Villages. 😟
Experts Look Into Possible Cyberattack At Florida HospitalsExperts are investigating after the computer systems of two central Florida hospitals showed signs of unusual activity, an official said.
The Villages Regional Hospital and the UF Health Leesburg Hospital shut down multiple systems to protect patient information during the event Monday night, switching to pen and paper to document patient visits, news outlets report.
We have since learned that the activity was related to a cybersecurity event, Frank Faust, a spokesman for the University of Floridas Health Central Florida, told the Orlando Sentinel. With regard to protected information, at this time we do not believe any patient or personnel records have been compromised or shared.
Faust said information technology teams from the University of Florida were investigating.
Read more: https://hosted.ap.org/themonitor/article/0fe9446aaa100609ab35083db2f8567a/experts-look-possible-cyberattack-florida-hospitals
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It's getting serious folks. They went after The Villages. 😟 (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jun 2021
OP
need to shut down Russian international link to the U.S. via internet-pull the plug !!
monkeyman1
Jun 2021
#3
OAITW r.2.0
(28,269 posts)1. Bubble got popped?
Putin's not your friend?
speak easy
(10,461 posts)2. Payback's a borscht.
National news was saying the government put cyberattacks on the same level as terror attacks so I figured it would be happening on a large scale.
I can't imagine the Panic some of the villagers are going through who are now fearful of their medical records being in someone else's hands. Are they still the number one place for STDs?
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)3. need to shut down Russian international link to the U.S. via internet-pull the plug !!