The New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the world's largest independent blood collection and distribution organizations, says a Sunday ransomware attack forced it to reschedule some appointments.
NYBC collects almost 4,000 units of blood products every day and serves more than 75 million people in more than a dozen states. It also provides transfusion-related medical services to over 500 hospitals nationwide.
On Wednesday, NYBC said it detected the attack after noticing suspicious activity on its IT systems over the weekend, on January 26.
"We immediately engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate. This investigation has confirmed that the suspicious activity is a result of a ransomware incident," NYBC
said in a Wednesday statement. 'We took immediate steps to help contain the threat, including taking certain systems offline. We are working diligently with these experts to restore our systems as quickly and as safely as possible."
