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Cyber security experts say network
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attacks on hospitals, medical providers
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are a growing problem. And just this
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week after 12 News received calls and
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emails from patients, Susan B. Allen
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Hospital in El Dredo says it's
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responding to a possible attack. It's an
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issue that affected one of Witchah's
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biggest hospitals just last year. Rachel
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Hall talks to experts about the growing
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problem. Thursday, 12 News received
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information from frustrated patients
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here at the Susan B. Allen Memorial
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Hospital in El Dredo saying they have
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not been able to contact the hospital in
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any way to the point they have not been
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able to set up important appointments
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throughout this week. Now, we've since
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received a statement from the hospital
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saying in part, "Susan B. Allen Memorial
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Hospital recently detected anomalous
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activity within our network environment,
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resulting in a system outage." We're
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told incident response efforts began
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immediately with assistance from a third
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party to investigate the incident. Now,
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local IT experts say ransomware or cyber
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attacks on large entities such as
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hospitals are always a concern and are
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happening very often throughout the
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The common phrase we use in the cyber
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security industry is it's not if, it's
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when you're going to get hit. And so,
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they're going after people one that not
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only have the money, but two, they're
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fairly confident have cyber security
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insurance policies that will pay for the
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money. So, they're going after the
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targets they know they can get the money
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from. Now, we're told the incident is
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still being investigated through that
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third party and the hospital will notify
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anyone immediately should your
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information be impacted. in El Dredo.
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Rachel Hall, 12 News.
