The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York has been struck by hackers.
“We have no evidence of actual or attempted exfiltration of patient information related to this incident,” the hospital said in a statement, adding that some data had been rendered unrecoverable.
The incident took place in July, when the hospital notice “unusual activity” on some of its servers, at which point it began its investigation, including the hiring of outside investigators.
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“We determined that a malware that encrypted certain systems had disrupted the operation of certain hospital systems; however, the investigation found no evidence that data was actually accessed or acquired by an unauthorized person(s)” it stated.
The malware corrupted some patient…
