Colorado Hospital Latest Cyberattack Victim Amid COVID-19

Parkview Medical Center was hit with a ransomware attack on April 21, according to Fox 21 News. As of Monday, the hospital’s website still displayed a message saying it was “currently experiencing a network outage.”

A Parkview employee told Fox 21 News that the cyberattack involved ransomware rendering the hospitals’ patient records systems inoperable.

In a statement provided to Information Security Media Group on Monday, Parkview says a cyberattack, which it declined to specify, resulted in an outage of a number of its IT systems.

“Our investigation is ongoing at this time, and we will provide updates as more information is verified by the forensics team,” the statement says. “While our medical staff continue to work around the clock in response to the ongoing global pandemic, we are doing everything in our power to bring our systems back online as quickly and securely as possible.”