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What We Know About San Diego Scripps Health Cyberattack – NBC 7 San Diego

One of San Diego’s main health care systems, Scripps Health, had its technology servers hacked on May 1. Here’s what happened in the last week, what we know.

Scripps Employees Say Lost Wages Not Covered During Cyber Attack – NBC 7 San Diego

“Scripps should cover our lost wages during this time. They should be covering it and not expect nurses to dip into their PTO (personal time off) when we’ve just come out of Covid and we need our vacation time,” said one health care worker who requested anonymity for fear of repercussion. One of the workers called the cyber-attack preventable, and feels employees are being punished for something they had nothing to do with. On Monday afternoon, the heath-care provider had one of its media representatives send a statement from what appeared to be a personal Gmail account, reports NBC 7 s Dana Griffin.

Scripps Health s Cyber Outage Caused By Ransomware Attacks : Cal Dept of Public Health – NBC 7 San Diego

NBC 7 s Dana Griffin spoke to a patient whose wait for surgery has been extended by the cyberattack. During that time, Scripps Health and county officials have been tight-lipped about the situation, other than to say that experts were working on the situation and that governmental agencies were aware of the incident. Scripps said it had proactively taken part of it s systems down: Upon discovering the outage, we immediately initiated an investigation and took steps to contain the outage, including by taking a significant portion of our network offline as a proactive security measure. In that same statement, Scripps described what was happening as a network outage that resulted in a disruption to our IT systems. On Friday, however, an official with the California Department of Public Health sent NBC 7 the following statement:

Scripps Health Outage Ransomware Attacks : Cal Dept of Public Health

Scripps Health s Cyber Outage Caused By ‘Ransomware Attacks : Cal. Dept. of Public Health Eric S. Page Scripps Mercy Hospital On Friday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) described the ongoing situation at Scripps Heath as a case of ransomware attacks. Ransomware typically works by introducing software that encrypts a user s data and holds the decryption key until the ransom is paid. Once that happens, a typical recourse is to reformat and restore the system from backups, a SDSU cyber warfare and cyber terrorism expert Steven Andrés told NBC in 2018 The local health-care provider, which operates five hospitals in San Diego, along with a series of clinics, was hit by a cyberattack over the weekend. Patients and staffers have been unable to access records, email and other technology for six days.

COVID-19 vaccine being developed, rolled out in record time brings hope

Regional hospitals that received the new COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine Tuesday administered their first shots Wednesday. Author: Alicia Summers (Reporter) Updated: 8:21 PM PST December 16, 2020 SAN DIEGO UC San Diego Health received 2,925 doses Tuesday and administered the first doses Wednesday. Kaiser Permanente administered vaccines at the Zion campus Wednesday afternoon.  Palomar health began administering the first doses to consenting frontline staff Wednesday morning. In total, San Diego County received 28,000 doses and each individual will need to receive two vaccinations administered about one month apart. California has prioritized frontline workers at hospitals, as well as residents and staff at skilled nursing communities and assisted living communities. 

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