SickKids: 80% of hospital priority systems back online after LockBit ransomware attack

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, Canada’s largest pediatric health center, said it has restored 80% of its systems that have a direct impact on hospital operations following a ransomware attack.

A spokesperson for the hospital told The Record that patients and families dealt with diagnostic and treatment delays because clinical teams struggled to receive lab reports and imaging results after the LockBit ransomware group launched an attack on the night of December 18.

While the hospital’s electronic medical record system …

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