Erie County Medical Center Corporation

Erie County Medical Center was the victim of a ransomware attack in April 2017 that shut down the hospital's entire computer network but also affected the care delivered to patients or nursing home residents.

According to Peter Cutler, the facility has accepted all inbound patients and has continued with all scheduled surgical procedures.

While IT professionals attempt to bring computer systems back up, hospital and nursing home employees manually admitted patients, filled prescriptions, and scheduled tests.

The FBI and the State Police investigated the incident and restored everything quickly.

Source: https://buffalonews.com/business/local/ecmc-officials-remain-mute-on-cause-of-computer-shutdown/article_f7f15ab4-bf02-5c11-b94b-f28c35f68f38.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/erie-county-medical-center

"id": "eri24514822",
"linkid": "erie-county-medical-center",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "04/2017",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

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                        'location': 'Erie County',
                        'name': 'Erie County Medical Center',
                        'type': 'Hospital'}],
 'date_detected': 'April 2017',
 'description': 'Erie County Medical Center was the victim of a ransomware '
                "attack in April 2017 that shut down the hospital's entire "
                'computer network but also affected the care delivered to '
                'patients or nursing home residents.',
 'impact': {'operational_impact': ['Patient admissions',
                                   'Prescription filling',
                                   'Test scheduling'],
            'systems_affected': 'Entire computer network'},
 'investigation_status': 'Resolved',
 'response': {'law_enforcement_notified': True,
              'recovery_measures': 'Manual admissions, prescriptions, and test '
                                   'scheduling',
              'third_party_assistance': ['FBI', 'State Police']},
 'title': 'Ransomware Attack on Erie County Medical Center',
 'type': 'Ransomware'}