WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US hospital chain Universal Healthcare Services announced in a statement on Monday that it has gone offline after being a subject to a cyberattack, but its patient care operations have not been affected.
According to NBC, citing an employee familiar with the company’s response efforts, it “looks and smells like ransomware”, an attack when criminals demand payments in return for a key to reopening encrypted files.
Universal Healthcare Services explained that it is using back-up procedures, including offline documentation methods, while work is underway to restore online operations.
Two nurses at Universal Health Services told NBC that the attack started over the weekend when their computers slowed and then completely went down on early Sunday morning.
It is one of the largest medical cyberattacks in the United States, according to media reports.
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