These hospitals are all in my immediate area, which is a poor and working-class section of New York City. The Administrators ought to be severely ashamed of themselves for not heeding the warnings and securing their systems. Other facilities that serve the poor have not been so affected, not yet anyway.
A Brooklyn hospital group that serves patients in some of New York’s poorest neighborhoods has been battling the consequences of a cyberattack that forced some critical services offline.
The group, One Brooklyn Health, was hit by the attack in late November, officials confirmed. Now, even as cybersecurity experts work to get its three hospitals fully back online, doctors and nurses are forced to rely on methods most hospitals left behind in the 1990s: pen-and-paper patient care.