Cyberattack hobbles Universal Health Service's hospitals across US
Computer systems across a major hospital chain with facilities
across the nation were down on Monday due to what the company termed an
unspecified technology security issue".
Doctors
and nurses had to rely on paper.
Universal
Health Services Inc, which operates more than 250 hospitals and other
clinical facilities in the US, said in a short statement posted to its website
on Monday that its network was offline and doctors and nurses were resorting to
back-up processes including paper records.
The
Fortune 500 company, with 90,000 employees, said patient care continues to be
delivered safely and effectively and no patient or employee data appeared to
have been accessed, copied or misused".
The
company also has hospitals in the
United Kingdom, but its operations in that country were not affected, a
spokeswoman said on Monday night.
UHS
provided no details about the incident, but people posting to an online Reddit
forum who identified themselves as employees said the chain's network was hit
by ransomware overnight Sunday.
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