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I feel so sorry for the patients.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes this incompetent administration is asking non-clinical administrator staff to help do parking tickets for clinicians having to work through this leadership failure and self imposed hell hole. So you’re a clinician having to work through this scenario and your coworker just got forced to give you a manual parking ticket. Because this is what is the priority when all systems are down. No exaggeration.

If you only knew how incompetent the leadership is.

Yet another in a long list of national embarassments for the State of Mississippi. You can claim “any place in any state could get hacked” but they clearly had not developed any recover plans at all for this. And a google search returns over a dozen vendors specializing in disaster recover for Epic systems.

Damn what a cluster, and again the patients suffer. Highest cost lowest return on investment healthcare system in the world, cyberattack or not. We the taxpayers are the ones left with the ultimate bill, right?

This whole thing is just, well, epic.

It should be interesting to see what repercussions result from this once they get going again.

Haha. I get it.

And just last month we shut I-55 down for four days on the south side of the Tennessee state line.

Maybe we should start using political connections to Tate Reeves as an automatic disqualifier for executive director of anything.

Isn't Ole Bennie the democratic party highest ranking member of Homeland Security? Where is his statement and assistance?

There's a resaon why both Democrats and Republicans want to go to to DC! Stuff usually works.

This is a cluster fuck beyond imagination. Ransomware attacks businesses on a daily basis; it is just a fact of business in today's world. But someone please help me understand why real businesses can be up and running the next day, and here we are at UMMC with no fucking idea of when we will be up and running. Please - this is beyond embarrassing.

@ 5:44, Amen to that. That's the biggest buncha Barneys ever. I mean who goes to the LEO academy to be a campus cop?

Your taxpayer dollars at work, folks, via Tater and his staff.

Word in the hospital corridors is the hackers want $75 to $100 million.

Switch Woodward with Brad White. He's coming up on five years solving critical, executive level problems. And she's running a parking garage, so should be able to handle roads.

My husband worked in IT at UMMC when Epic was first adopted. He called it a "four letter word." UMMC is fine, doing what needs to be done to restore all systems and taking care of patients at the same time. I am not going to bash UMMC over this situation. I do hope we eventually will be told how much the state has to pay in crypto for the ransom.

@9:30pm You can't compare a business to the immense size of data at UMMC. This is thousands of TB of information.

The problem with Mississippi is that 60% of the population are lazy inbred morons and thays just the whites!

i thought thousands of terabytes was a pedobyte. or would that be drumpsteins data center?

You can tell the hospital was totally unprepared for this. They still haven't released the magnitude of the attack. I would be curious to see what a third party security company has to say on the level of security they had before the attack.

If 5:44 pm is correct there is no hope of adequate leadership. Only first class fools would allocate resources that way.

They probably will determine UMMC had 'Southern Fried Stoopid' level security, but in the hired gun securtiy business you have to be careful with your strong opinions!

9:30 - You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, much like the rest of the critical, whiney bitches on this blog.

8:55 - They will never release the magnitude of this attack because that would be a non-tactical and stupid course of action, nor should they. Know why? Because they've been directed not to by entities like the FBI. Another idiot posting from behind the screen of ignorance.

Over 100 hospital systems experience ransom attacks annually in the US. Network systems at hospital are highly regulated by various healthcare related agencies telling them what they can and can't do, but you go ahead key board warriors with all the answers.

@11:06 don't I as a patient have the right to know if my personal health records were stolen and any financial information was taken. Us as patients deserve to now something. I don't expect them to talk about the investigation, but they can tell us what was taken and if our information is on the dark web now. You can stop being a Jack Ass

@10:40… No

That 30 page consent to treat form that you sign if you want to be a patient? It's written by very competent attorneys, and you signed away that right, along with your left nut and all the valuable patents your first grandchild obtains after they are born and graduate with a PhD from MIT.

Would take a stray dog there. It is sad for patients but ummc deserves whatever happens.
It probably happened to cover all the fraud. It’s all about money not your health. I

You got that right sister. Any ransom paid must be fully disclosed to the public.

Another idiot posting from behind the screen of ignorance.

Big talk.

Over 100 hospital systems experience ransom attacks annually in the US

Link? Put up.

Just last week rec'd notification of a Blue Cross vendor hack that ran from Oct 21, 2024 to Jan 13, 2025. Thirteen months later they share the news.

I can guarantee I know a lot more about hacking than some state government employee too scared of the FBI to even use Tor to purchasd a TPlink router botnet.