The Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) hospital in Florida was forced to take its systems offline and suspended non-emergency procedures after a cyberattack.
The attack which took place on Thursday hit some of the systems at the hospital. The hospital has reported the incident to law enforcement and launched an investigation into the security breach.
All emergency medical services (EMS) were suspended and announced that patients will be diverted to other hospitals. They decided to accept only Level 1 traumas from its immediate service area.
According to a notice published by TMH, they are safely caring all patients who are currently in the hospital, and are not moving patients to other facilities. However, they have rescheduled non-emergency patient appointments. Patients will be contacted directly by their provider and/or care facility if their appointment is affected.
In an update provided by the hospital, TMH states that all non-emergency/elective procedures for Monday, Feb. 6 will be canceled and rescheduled.
TMH did not provide details about the cyber-attack, however according to some local media reports, the hospital was hit by a ransomware attack.
US hospitals are the targets of multiple ransomware operations, and US authorities already warned healthcare organizations of the risk of imminent attacks.
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