Hospital Sisters Health System informed nearly 882,000 patients that a cyberattack in August 2023 resulted in a data breach that compromised their private and medical data.
Established in 1875, HSHS works with about 2,200 physicians and employs over 12,000 employees. It also runs a network of physician practices and 15 community hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin, including two children’s hospitals.
The non-profit healthcare institution stated in data breach notifications given to those affected that the incident was discovered on August 27, 2023, after determining that the hacker had gained access to the HSHS network.
Following the security incident, its systems were affected by a widespread outage that knocked out “virtually all operating systems” and phone systems in Illinois and Wisconsin hospitals. HSHS also hired external security specialists to investigate the incident, assess the impact, and assist the IT staff in restoring hacked systems.
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