A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death

When Teiranni Kidd walked into Springhill Medical Center on July 16, 2019, to have her baby, she had no idea the Alabama hospital was deep in the midst of aFor nearly eight days, computers had been disabled on every floor.

A real-time wireless tracker that could locate medical staff around the hospital was down. Years of patient health records were inaccessible. And at the nurses’ desk in the labor and delivery unit, medical staff were cut off from the equipment that monitors fetal heartbeats in the 12 delivery rooms.

Repugnant, tragic and so very sad. The hospital bears the ultimate responsibility.

Risk is inherent in life we keep forgetting this. We will never sue our way to happiness.

I unfortunately cannot read the article without subscription. But as a healthcare provider working in the NICU.... I don't need a computer to save a babies life, %100 no ifs ands or buts.

Yes

Both. Hospitals and other companies decided to neglect security in favor of higher salaries. And, sadly, the govt doesn’t force companies to have adequate cyber security. Until the govt force the CEOs to invest in cyber security, taxpayers will pay the price instead.

horrible

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The hospital

Tell us the vector! Read the article twice and no mention of HOW the attack was made. Email phish? Unsecured server? Something else? Nothing about hospital IT practices either. Corporate CYA happening. Major IT security fail. Suit should succeed.

Clearly, it's both, but the hospital bears a greater burden for failing to provide a safe environment for their patients.

Wouldn’t the hackers be the ones at fault?

Both

Thank you for saying pregnant WOMAN and not PERSON!!!

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