{"id":167119,"date":"2025-09-25T02:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167119\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:11:12","slug":"kettering-health-internet-problems-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167119\/","title":{"rendered":"Kettering Health internet problems resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"1\">The outage was not related to a cyber attack or an external party, according to a statement from Kettering Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"2\">During the outage, several system applications were unavailable including MyChart, the health care system\u2019s online patient portal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"3\">Emergency departments at Hamilton, Greene Memorial, Huber, Middletown, Preble, Springfield and Franklin were unable to accept stroke patients during the outage. Patients were diverted to other hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"4\">The only other people affected were patients trying to access MyChart, according to Kettering Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"6\">According to the statement, the problems were related to an internal network issue which was identified and fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Explore<a class=\"headline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/health-care-jobs-growing-while-other-sectors-struggle-in-region\/G6NPCVJFVJBNNIUCP3MVNPVEK4\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Health care jobs grow while other sectors struggle<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"9\">Scheduled appointments were resumed and the diversion protocol was lifted, according to Kettering Health. Patients affected by the outage have been instructed to call their doctor or practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"10\">Between April and May, Kettering Health was the target of a cyberattack linked to a ransomware group known as Interlock that caused a system-wide technology outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"11\">More than 730,000 files containing personal information such as identification cards, payment data and financial documents were stolen, according to the cybersecurity firm Comparitech. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"12\">The attack resulted in canceled appointments, delayed medical treatments and an inability for patients to call their care teams or access MyChart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"13\">It took more than three weeks for Kettering Health to restore normal operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"16\">Kettering Health continues to operate a dedicated assistance line, (212)-202-8326, for people who may have been impacted by the cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"17\">Health care had more cyberthreats in 2024 than any other critical infrastructure industry, according to the FBI\u2019s annual Internet Crime Report, with 206 data breaches and 238 ransomware threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"18\">Kettering Health has 14 area medical centers and more than 120 outpatient locations throughout Western Ohio, as well as the Kettering Physician Network, which includes more than 700 board-certified providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outage was not related to a cyber attack or an external party, according to a statement from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-167119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}