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Incident: Electronic medical records locked down as cyber-hackers target hospitals | Nine News

Incident: Electronic medical records locked down as cyber-hackers target hospitals | Nine News

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: June 22 2019

The IT system across Eastern Health, which manages hospitals such as Box Hill and Maroondah, has been the target of a mystery cyber attack. The issue was immediately contained and there was no loss of data from the computer network.

Eastern Health says all computer systems are back up and running and has assured the public there has been no privacy breaches relating to patient information.

Source: Electronic medical records locked down as cyber-hackers target hospitals

Eastern Health Media Statement:  Computer outage experienced by Eastern Health (PDF)

Eastern Health Website Statement: Computer outage experienced by Eastern Health

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