Security News > 2021 > November > Canadian province health care system disrupted by cyberattack
The attack took place on October 30th, causing regional health systems to shut down their networks and cancel thousands of medical appointments.
This outage affected health systems in Central Health, Eastern Health, Western Health, and the Labrador-Grenfell Regional Health authorities.
The IT outage also affected communications in the region, with people reporting an inability to reach the health care centers or 911 via phone.
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Community Services announced that they had started an investigation into the systems outage with the help of the managed service provider, Bell Aliant.
As emails are not working and doctors cannot register new patients or upload and access medical results on the database, many affected health centers have turned to using pen and paper.
Health Minister John Haggie and Eastern Health CEO David Diamond spoke at a media conference earlier today, stating that the incident had a 'significant impact' and a 'damaged data center.