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Old 06-03-2021, 02:18 PM
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Default UF Leesburg Hospital

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Originally Posted by Boffin View Post
UF Health-The Villages Hospital has been forced to operate by pen and paper thanks to a ransomware attack which has shut down the computer system.

The hospital has not officially acknowledged the attack, but an official with knowledge of the situation confirmed what has taken place, both at the hospital in The Villages and Leesburg Regional Medical Center.

Both hospitals operate under the UF Health system. Other hospitals in that system are reportedly not impacted and functioning normally.
I was visiting a friend yesterday at UF Leesburg Hospital shortly after noon and the computers were inoperable. I wasn’t given a reason, nor ask for one so your guess is as good as mine. I will say the staff seemed very concern and the situation rather chaotic. Was it a cyber attack or just another internal computer system problem?
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