Security News > 2020 > September > UK, US hospital computers are down, early unofficial diagnosis is a suspected outbreak of Ryuk ransomware

UHS insists patient care continues to be delivered and that "No patient or employee data appears to have been accessed, copied or otherwise compromised."

A UHS spokesperson declined to provide further details or to comment on unsubstantiated claims made via social media suggesting the involvement of the Ryuk ransomware family.

Unidentified individuals posting to Reddit who claim to be affiliated with UHS facilities in Arizona, California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania say the IT outage has affected their workplace.

The Register has put in calls to several UHS facilities around the US but has not heard back from anyone in a position to confirm details about the nature of the IT outage or the number of facilities affected.

German authorities recently said that a woman had died as a result of treatment delays brought on by ransomware - the cyber-attack on the IT systems at a hospital in Dusseldorf forced a patient in need of urgent care to be taken to a facility in another city, and the delay in treatment led to her death.

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