Attack on Shared IT Supplier Affects 5 Hospitals in Ontario

Nonemergency Patients Asked to Cancel or Reschedule Appointments During Outage
A cyberattack on a shared IT services organization is forcing five member hospitals in Ontario to cancel or reschedule patient appointments and steer nonemergency patients to other facilities. Attacks against third-party vendors are rising, and many regional hospitals are unprepared.

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