{"id":29333,"date":"2020-09-29T09:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=29333"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:22:07","slug":"ransomware-attack-hits-one-of-the-largest-hospital-networks-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ransomware-attack-hits-one-of-the-largest-hospital-networks-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware attack hits one of the largest hospital networks in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The American company Universal Health Services (UHS), a Fortune 500-listed medical-services provider, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. As reported by <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/uhs-hospital-network-hit-by-ransomware-attack\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">ZDNet<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Staff say some UHS hospitals have had to operate without computer systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Problems affected UHS medical centers in North Carolina and Texas. Reddit users also <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/hacking\/comments\/j17aj1\/cyberattack_on_uhs_hospitals_nationwide_last_night\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> similar incidents in Arizona, Florida and California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to some reports, UHS systems were attacked by Ryuk. Official confirmation has not been obtained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to media reports, the creators of Ryuk <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ryuk-ransomware-creators-moved-more-than-1-million-in-bitcoin-via-binance\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">moved more than $1 million in bitcoins<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> via the Binance cryptocurrency exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American company Universal Health Services (UHS), a Fortune 500-listed provider of medical services, was the victim of a ransomware attack, according to ZDNet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-29333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29335,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29333\/revisions\/29335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}