Ransomware Attack on the Center Is the Latest Assault on Blood Supply Chain
Those earlier blood supply cyber incidents triggered several healthcare sector cybersecurity alerts from governments, authorities and industry groups, including a bulletin from the Food and Drug Administration and a joint advisory from the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center and the American Hospital Association (see: Attacks on Blood Suppliers Trigger Supply Chain Warning).
“The ransomware attacks on Synnovis, Octapharma and OneBlood by Russian ransomware gangs caused massive regional disruptions to patient care,” said Errol Weiss, chief security officer at the Health ISAC. “The shortages of blood and plasma that these attacks brought delayed critical treatment and postponed important surgeries.”
“Healthcare systems should consider alternative suppliers and have multiple suppliers to create redundancy if mission-critical blood suppliers are impacted by a cyberattack,” he said.
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