A little more than a year ago, nearly 8.5 million Windows-based IT systems went down due to a simple error made during a routine software update. Computers were unable to reboot for several hours due to a bug from CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity business whose products are used to detect and respond to security attacks. Many of the systems needed further manual patches, which prolonged the outage.
The estimated financial toll? Anywhere between $5 billion and $10 billion for Fortune 500 firms – and close to $2 billion for the healthcare sector specifically.
A new report reveals that the negative repercussions on healthcare organisations have gone far beyond financial. A study published in JAMA Network Open by the University of California San Diego found that the incident triggered measurable disruptions in a large proportion of US hospitals, including technical issues that impacted basic operations, research activities, and direct patient care. The researchers discovered that immediately following the CrowdStrike upgrade on July 19, 759 hospitals (out of 2232 with available data) had measurable service disruptions. That represents more than one-third of healthcare organisations.
[…]
Content was cut in order to protect the source.Please visit the source for the rest of the article.
This article has been indexed from CySecurity News – Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
Read the original article: