DETROIT, Mich – A massive cyberattack on Ascension Health has compromised the sensitive data of millions of patients and employees hit last week .The breach exposed personal information, including medical records and financial details, prompting the health system to enhance its cybersecurity measures.
I am told due to the hack some employees are now being sent home and aren’t being told when to come back to work.
These are justs some of the messages I have received from Ascension employees:
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The company released the following statement:
We continue to diligently investigate and address the recent ransomware incident, working closely with industry leading cybersecurity experts to assist in our investigation and restoration and recovery efforts. Additionally, we have notified law enforcement, as well as government partners including the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the American Hospital Association (AHA). We remain in close contact with the FBI and CISA, and we are sharing relevant threat intelligence with the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) so that our industry partners and peers can take steps to protect themselves from similar incidents.
While our restoration work continues in earnest, our focus is on restoring systems as safely as possible. While we expect this process will take time to complete, we are making progress and systems are being restored in a coordinated manner at each of our care sites. We will continue to share updates on our recovery process.
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Ascension has 134,000 employees, 35,000 affiliated providers and 140 hospitals across 19 states and Washington, D.C.
