Becker's Healthcare July 24, 2024
Jeffrey Ferranti, MD, chief digital officer of Duke University Health System, was awakened in the early morning hours of July 19 with a text that the computers at his hospitals were down. His first thought: ransomware attack.
He wasn’t the only health system IT executive to get a similar call or text around that time. Or have the same initial thought.
Tens of thousands of workstations at the Durham, N.C.-based health system had blank blue screens. Not knowing the cause, Duke activated its hospital incident command system (the first time it had done so for a cyber incident). By later that day, over 100 IT staffers had been trained to fix the computers.
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