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Chicago folks - have you read about the Lurie cyberattack and outage?
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Posted by ISeeDeadHawkeyes
on February 7, 2024, 8:42:32
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/lurie-childrens-hospital-network-outage-reaches-8th-day-experts-believe-ransomware-attack-is-to-blame/
Nightmare fuel for those of us in healthcare IT
Message Thread:
Chicago folks - have you read about the Lurie cyberattack and outage?
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 7, 2024, 8:42:32
So if cryptocurrency wasn't a thing, would ransomware attacks still happen?
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IlliniOllie
February 13, 2024, 8:17:41
ooo
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ijustkrushalot
February 13, 2024, 8:20:13
Still down*
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 13, 2024, 8:04:02
My BIL works at a Children's Hospital here in Indy, and he's connected to some people at Lurie.
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tvillini
February 12, 2024, 12:15:35
This is still impacting them, btw. They’re having to keep paper schedules*
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Carl Spackler
February 12, 2024, 11:54:30
Yea. Things definitely take longer right now for check-in and other administrative tasks*
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OWWDig
February 12, 2024, 12:18:41
I dont have any contacts there to see what's going on
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 12, 2024, 12:13:44
it was 100% a cost decision at some point*
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torinese
February 13, 2024, 8:39:13
And now this is going to cost them way way way more than whatever they saved*
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 13, 2024, 8:43:32
of course. it's important business cases aren't always dependent on only a financial payback*
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torinese
February 13, 2024, 8:45:28
It’s absolutely insane.
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GhostofPokeyStixPast
February 13, 2024, 8:11:17
I wonder if they didn't do disaster recovery database setup properly?
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 13, 2024, 8:35:52
I’m shocked they wouldn’t do tabletop exercises to practice for this event
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GhostofPokeyStixPast
February 13, 2024, 9:04:54
I think you are underestimating the prevalence of ransomware attacks*
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gvibes
February 13, 2024, 8:20:20
I assure you I don’t since I work for a healthcare it vendor.
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GhostofPokeyStixPast
February 13, 2024, 9:01:15
Where do most cyber attacks originate? Russia? China? *
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ibdoc
February 7, 2024, 10:44:49
Russia. And making a ransom ware payment knowing it’s going to Russia is a problem too*
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GhostofPokeyStixPast
February 7, 2024, 11:56:55
I'd be good with public hangings for the people who do this shit. *
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doubledown
February 7, 2024, 8:59:02
I was thinking a team that tracks these people down wherever they are
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Tooldresser
February 7, 2024, 10:27:49
I prefer to rain fire down upon them and stick an Ariat in their ass*
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longsnapper
February 7, 2024, 10:34:56
Was OSF outage ransomware or just someone hacked in and took data?*
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ibdoc
February 7, 2024, 8:54:16
I dont know if it was ever announced
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 7, 2024, 8:56:13
You and me both.*
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DocWalk20
February 12, 2024, 12:15:56
I got an email saying it was cybersecurity*
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Carl Spackler
February 7, 2024, 9:15:19
henry schein got hacked with ransoms and originally announced as solely cybersecurity*
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torinese
February 7, 2024, 9:16:44
Oh, I took cybersecurity to mean ransoms*
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Carl Spackler
February 7, 2024, 9:54:44
Freaking Chad, man.*
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Tuscy
February 7, 2024, 8:46:54
violation.*
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Nobster
February 7, 2024, 9:06:57
I mean, he's a decent looking dude, but I'm not posting a pic for you.*
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Tuscy
February 7, 2024, 9:09:27
Yeah this is bonkers. Also fuck you, cyber attackers. It’s a god damn children’s hospital network*
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Carl Spackler
February 7, 2024, 8:46:01
I can't imagine the chaos in the NICU and PICU. The poor kids. Cyber attackers = cancer*
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ibdoc
February 7, 2024, 8:53:20
Absolutely. Downtime procedures are meant for hours not days*
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 7, 2024, 10:43:31
jebus*
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Tooldresser
February 7, 2024, 10:28:08
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