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By Sarai Rodriguez March 09, 2023 – An unidentified threat actor has exposed the personal health information (PHI) of hundreds of House of Representative members and staff in a recent healthcare data…
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The FBI confirmed it is working with Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare to assess an IT systems outage that began on February 2.WHY IT MATTERS
When the incident began, the hospital announced it was only accepting Level 1 trauma patients from Leon County and the immediate surrounding counties. All non-emergency surgical and outpatient procedures were canceled and rescheduled.
TMH posted reports over the weekend saying it made progress in managing the event, and physicians began seeing patients today, though surgeries and procedures were again canceled and rescheduled.
The hospital has otherwise been tight-lipped about the suspected cause of the outage.
“We will provide updates as the investigation…
