Cyber ​​attack brings Kettering Health Phone lines, mychart patient portal access

“At the beginning of this morning, Kettering Health experienced a system -wide technology failure that presents many of our patient care systems in the entire organization,” said Kettering Health in an organizational explanation. “We have procedures and plans for this type of situations and will continue to offer a safe and high -quality care of the patients in our facilities.”

Sources give the Dayton Daily News that the hospital system has to do with ransomware attack. Hackers seem to threaten to destroy data and publicly publish sensitive data on the dark web if hospital officials do not reach and negotiate within 72 hours in 72 hours.

The dark web is usually described as a hidden part of the Internet, which is not indicated by regular search engines and is only accessible via special browsers.

“We currently have a cyber security incident that results from the non -authorized access to our network,” said Kettering Health. “We have taken steps to contain and alleviate this activity and actively examine and monitor the situation. We will continue to present updates.”

For Tuesday, elective inpatient and outpatient procedures in Kettering Health were canceled. These procedures are postponed for a later date, and further information is provided for this when updates are available, the hospital system says.

“At this point, only election procedures are postponed. Our emergency rooms and clinics are open and continue to see patients,” said Kettering Health. Patients should expect a call from their care team.

The Kettering Health Call Center also has a failure and may be inaccessible.

“We understand that this is frustrating for our patients and for those who have family members in our care. We have procedures and plans for this type of situations so that despite the disorder we experience, we can continue to offer safe and high -quality care for patients in our facilities,” said Kettering Health in an earlier explanation.

Others affected

According to a Facebook post by Greater Miami Valley Ems Council, the emergency rooms in Kettering distract the ambulances to other facilities.

“Per Kettering Health: Kettering Health has a system-wide network problems at this point. Our incident command is in operation and evaluates our functions. All EDS are in redirect and we update all changes at the top every hour,” says the post office.

Premier Health alerts his employees, it has referred to his employees due to the ransomware attack at Kettering Health as “code yellow” and warns of a potentially significant increase in patient volume in the coming hours and days, since the patients were diverted with the Dayton Daily News.

At the same time, Premier warns his employees. The ability of the two hospital networks to communicate about things such as imaging and media records is deactivated.

Premier Health rejected a statement.

The Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association is known to the latest technological incident that concerns one of the regional health systems.

“While the incident is deeply worrying, it is also a strong memory of the critical importance of cooperation, willingness and resilience in health care,” said the association in a statement.

Area hospitals continuously train for events such as this, said Gdaha and integrated the safety of the technology into their emergency provision planning and protocols such as for natural disasters or mass accidents.

“Through coordinated exercises, downtime and procedure and real-time communication channels, our health service providers are in view of digital disorders to maintain the continuity of the care of the care,” said the association.

Endangered health organizations

Kettering Health has not commented on the type of cyber attack in the hospital system. The American Hospital Association in March said that Cyberhreat actors used a chatt.

“This could make it possible for an attacker to steal sensitive data or to influence the availability of the AI ​​tool,” said Scott Gee, deputy national consultant for cyber security and risk at the American Hospital Association.

The National Institute for Standards and Technology lists vulnerability as a medium risk, but Veriti was used by cyberhreat actors in more than 10,000 attempts to attack worldwide with financial institutions, health care and government organizations.

Health organizations are particularly at risk and targeted by cyber attacks because they have information about cyber and national state actors about a high money and secret service, according to the American Hospital Association.

According to the association, stolen health files can sell up to 10 times or more than stolen credit card numbers on the dark web.