When, a year ago, a small car update for the software sold by Cybercity firm Crowdastrik took millions of computers around the world and sent them to the reboot’s death spiral, then the global cost of all those crashed machines was equal to one of the worst cyber tacks in history. some of the various Estimate The total damage worldwide has spread well in billions of dollars.
Now a New study Researchers by a team of medical cyber security have taken the first step in potential damage to hospitals and their patients across the US, not in dollars, not in dollars, not in dollars. This evidence suggests that hundreds of services of those hospitals were interrupted during outage, and increase concerns about the potentially serious effects of patients’ health and well -being.
Researchers at San Diego, University of California, issued a paper at the Jama Network Open to mark a one -year anniversary of the devastation of crowdstruk, a publication of the journal of American Medical Association Network, which first tries to make a thick estimate of the number of hospitals whose network had influenced 19 July, 2024.
By scanning the internet-interesting parts of the hospital network before the crisis, during and after the crisis, he found that there is a minimum of 759 hospitals in the US that experiences any kind of network disintegration that day. He found that more than 200 of the hospitals feel that it was particularly killed with outage which were directly from the affected patients, from inaccessible health records and testing scans to fetal monitoring systems that went offline. Of the 2,232 hospital networks, they were able to scan, researchers found that 34 percent of them appear to be suffering from some type of disruption.
All this indicates that the crowdstrik outage may be a “important public health issue”, Christian Demom, a UCSD is an emergency medical physician and one of the cyber security researchers and one of the authors of the paper. “If we had this paper data a year ago, it happened,” I think, “I think we will be very worried about how much it has really had an impact on American health care.”
In a statement by Crowdastric, Wired, UCSD studies and publishing the Jama’s decision strongly criticized, called “Junk Science”. They note that the researchers did not verify that the obstructed network should run Windows or Crowdastric Software, and suggests that Microsoft’s Cloud Service Azure experienced a major outage on the same day that could be responsible for some hospital network disruptions. “It is completely irresponsible and scientifically uncertain to draw conclusions about downtrination and patient effects without verifying the conclusions with any hospital mentioned with any hospital mentioned with any hospital mentioned.”
“When we reject the functioning and conclusion of this report, we recognize the impact a year ago,” the statement said. “As we have said from the beginning, we honestly apologize to our customers and affected people and keep focusing on strengthening the flexibility of our platform and industry.”
