cyber attack

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, cyber attacks on hospitals and health systems are on the rise.

Attackers took files that may contain protected health information and personally identifiable information.

Staff are asking for fewer elective surgeries and a temporary reduction in non-emergent patient admissions, "to alleviate the strain on resources and prioritize care."

“Obviously if someone is having an absolute emergency, you want them to come somewhere close,” one ER nurse said. “But when I can’t find someone’s critical lab work or I don’t know if someone has a brain bleed ... what good are we doing? At what point are we turning into patient harm?”

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Schools are increasingly becoming targets of ransomware attacks. In the attacks, criminal hackers find a way into a school’s computer network, then shut down the school's systems and hold its data hostage hoping for a payout.

A spokeswoman says its public websites experienced intermittent problems as a result of a cyber-attack on a third-party vendor.

Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek and its satellite campuses are closed because of a cyber attack.

An Ingham County official is suggesting actions that could cost nearly $2 million to strengthen the county's cybersecurity following a computer network…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan regulators have directed their staff to develop rules designed to toughen utilities' defenses against cyberattacks.…