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Patients File Lawsuit Against DCH Health System After Cyber Attack On Their Records
On Oct. 1, DCH’s hospitals in Tuscaloosa, Northport, and Fayette were temporarily closed due to a breach in its computer system. The source of the breach was a cyber attack from an unknown group asking for money in exchange for access to the hospital’s patient…
DCH Hospitals Pays Ransom For Cyber Attack
After this week’s ransomware attack, three DCH hospitals are starting to come back online. On late Tuesday, a variant of the Ryuk Ransomware struck the IT networks of the DCH Hospitals in Tuscaloosa, Fayette, and Northport. The hospitals had to start diverting all but the…
Ransomware Closes DCH Hospitals In Tuscaloosa, Northport, and Fayette
All three hospitals of the DCH Health System in West Alabama were closed Tuesday to new patients due to a ransomware attack on their computer system. The hospitals are located in Tuscaloosa, Northport and Fayette, AL. In a statement published on their website, DCH said…