New Zealand Hospitals Under Prolonged IT Outage From Ransom Hack
Patients are being asked to arrive at appointments with paper documents and banks are urged to honor automatic payments to hospital staff.
Bloomberg | May 25, 2021
Jamie Tarabay (Bloomberg) -- Systems are still down a week after a ransomware attack disrupted the IT network of five hospitals in the New Zealand district of Waikato, and concerns remain that private patient information may have been exposed.
Patients are being asked to arrive at appointments with paper documents and banks are urged to honor automatic payments to hospital staff who were either underpaid or not paid at all, a week after the Waikato District Health Board said it experienced a full outage of its information services.