Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children dealing with cybersecurity incident Howard Solomon December 21, 2022 "Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children is still dealing with a cybersecurity incident so serious it declared a "Code Grey" - meaning an IT system failure." "All patient care is continuing while SickKids investigates and works to resolve the situation," the hospital said in a statement. "Upon learning of this incident, we immediately activated the hospital's incident management command centre and launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident. At this time, the incident appears to have only impacted a few internal clinical and corporate systems, as well as some hospital phone lines and webpages. Downtime procedures have been activated where needed." "For now, the public may experience difficulties calling into the hospital, and accessing some webpages such as AboutKidsHealth.ca (SickKids’ health information site) and the hospital’s Careers application portal, the hospital said." https://channeldailynews.com/news/torontos-hospital-for-sick-children-dealing-with-cybersecurity-incident/79419?utm_source=CDN-TD&utm_medium=enews&utm_campaign=CDN-TD&scid=b2344d5a-4609-b432-f662-4e60014e6876
Ransomware attack delays SickKids lab results, systems could be offline for weeks Jordan Omstead, The Canadian Press Published Thursday, December 22, 2022 10:12AM EST Last Updated Thursday, December 22, 2022 2:38PM EST "TORONTO - A ransomware attack has delayed lab and imaging results at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and could lead to longer wait times, the hospital said Thursday, noting that some of its systems could be offline for weeks." ... "'While we can confirm this is a ransomware attack, SickKids has been preparing for attacks of this nature, and mobilized quickly to mitigate potential impacts to the continuity of care,' the hospital said in a written statement Thursday." "... the hospital said it would likely be a 'matter of weeks' before all systems are working as normal." "'Clinical teams are currently experiencing delays with retrieving lab and imaging results, which may cause longer wait times for patients and families,' the hospital said." https://www.cp24.com/news/ransomware-attack-delays-sickkids-lab-results-systems-could-be-offline-for-weeks-1.6205494
