“Earlier this morning, Kettering Health experienced a system of technology on a system scale that causes challenges to many of our organizational care systems in the organization,” Kettering Health said in an organizational statement. “We have procedures and plans in place for these types of situations and will continue to provide safe and high quality care to patients currently in our establishments.”
Sources tell Dayton Daily News that the hospital system deals with a ransomware attack. Pirates seem to threaten to destroy data and publicly publish sensitive data on the Dark Web if hospital officials do not contact and do not negotiate within 72 hours, according to information shared with the Dayton Daily News by an anonymous source.
The Dark web is generally described as a hidden part of the Internet which is not indexed by regular search engines and only accessible via special browsers.
“We are currently experiencing a cybersecurity incident resulting from unauthorized access to our network,” Kettering Health said. “We have taken measures to contain and mitigate this activity and actively investigate and monitor the situation. We will continue to provide updates if necessary. ”
The elective procedures of hospitalized and ambulatory patients in Kettering health establishments were canceled for Tuesday. These procedures will be reprogrammed for a later date and more information will be provided as updates are available, said the hospital system.
“For the moment, only elective procedures are reprogrammed. Our emergency and clinical rooms are open and continue to see the patients,” said Kettering Health. Patients should expect a call from their care team.
The Kettering Health Call Center is also currently experiencing a breakdown and can be inaccessible.
“We understand that this is frustrating for our patients and concerning those who have family members.
Others had an impact
Kettering emergency services divert ambulances to other facilities, according to an article on Facebook of the Greater Miami Valley EMS Council.
“Per Kettering Health: Kettering Health knows network problems at the system scale at the moment. Our incident order is operational and assesses our capacities. All EDs are in diversion and we update with any change at the top of each hour, ”says the post.
First health alerts its employees, which he called a “yellow code” due to the ransomware attack at Kettering Health and warns a potentially significant increase in patient volumes in the hours and days to come due to the diversion of patients, according to information shared with the Dayton Daily News.
At the same time, the Prime Minister warns his employees, the capacity of the two hospital networks to communicate on elements such as imaging and medial files is disabled.
First Health refused to comment.
Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association is aware of the recent technological incident affecting one of the regional health systems, he said.
“Although the incident is deeply worrying, it is also a powerful reminder of the critical importance of collaboration, preparation and resilience in health care,” the association said in a statement.
Hospitals in the region are constantly training for events like this, said GDAHA, integrating technological security into their emergency preparation planning and protocols as they do for natural disasters or mass victims.
“Thanks to coordinated exercises, documentation and procedures for stopping times and real -time communication channels, our health care providers are equipped to maintain continuity of care, even in the face of digital disturbances,” said the association.
Risk health care organizations
Kettering Health did not comment on the type of cyber attacks experienced by the hospital system. The American Hospital Association in March said that a vulnerability of Chatgpt was used by cyber-stage players to attack security defects in artificial intelligence systems, citing March 12 on March 12 report By Veriti, a cybersecurity company.
“This could allow an attacker to steal sensitive data or impact on the availability of the AI tool,” said Scott Gee, deputy national advisor for cybersecurity and risks to the American Hospital Association.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology lists vulnerability as an average risk, but Veriti has said that it was used by cyberhetically actors in more than 10,000 attempts to attack worldwide with financial institutions, health care and government organizations the best objectives of attacks.
Health care organizations are particularly vulnerable and targeted by cyber attacks because they have information on great monetary and intelligent value for cyber-orgaters and actors in the nation state, said the American Hospital Association.
Stolen health files can sell up to 10 times or more than credit card numbers stolen from Dark Web, according to the association.