Quote:More than a month after a cyberattack hit the University of Vermont (UVM) health network, the organization is still working to recover its systems.
The UVM health network is a six-hospital, home-health and hospice system, which encompasses more than 1,000 physicians, 2,000 nurses and other clinicians in Vermont and northern New York. When the cyberattack first hit, the week of Oct. 25, it led to widespread delays in patient appointments – including chemotherapy appointments, as well as mammograms and biopsies.
Weeks later, the network is still struggling to restore systems – only last week announcing it has restored access to the MyChart online patient portal for its existing users (MyChart was unavailable to patients following the cyberattack), as well as the Epic electronic medical record system.
“The time it took UVM to restore some of their system is indicative for the impact the recent cyberattack had – and, not all systems have been restored yet,” Dirk Schrader, global vice president at New Net Technologies (NNT) told Threatpost in an email. “This attack must have been devastating. It would be an interesting case to learn from if UVM would stand up and share all details, attack vectors, timelines of this attack once fully recovered. There is a lot that other organizations can learn from this incident.”
Reports alleged that the attack came through the hospital’s main computer server, and impacted its entire system. Threatpost has repeatedly reached out to FBI spokesperson Sarah Ruane about the attack – including what type of data was accessed, how the attack initially occurred, whether malware or ransomware was utilized and more. This article will be updated accordingly when the spokesperson responds.
Read more: https://threatpost.com/cyberattack-uvm-h...es/161681/
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