New York State health officials for the first time acknowledged that a network of Brooklyn hospitals whose computer systems crashed last month causing chaos for patient and staffers had been subjec…
last month — causing chaos for patients and staffers — had been subjected to a cyber hack attack.
A network of Brooklyn hospitals — which includes Brookdale — saw it’s computer systems crash last month as a result of a cyber attack.“Our ongoing investigation has so far confirmed that the network disruption was a result of a cybersecurity incident,” Brown said. The admission from state regulators came after a former Brooklyn Councilman and mayoral candidate Sal Albanese and medical lawyer James Schiffer publicly claimed that the hospital system had been hacked and subjected to a $5 million cyber ransom from hackers to fix the mess.
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