At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds

When, one year ago today, the animated vehicles update for the programs sold by Crowdstrike Cyber Security Company reduced millions of computers around the world and sent them to the cycle of death from the repeated restoration, and the global cost of all those machines that were shattered one of the worst cyber dogs in history. Some different estimates of total damage around the world have spanned billions of dollars.

Now a new study by a team of researchers in the field of medical cybersecurity has taken the first steps to determine the cost of the Crowdstrike disaster not in dollars, but in possible damage to hospitals and their illnesses throughout the United States. It reveals evidence that hundreds of these hospitals have been disrupted during power outages, and raises concerns about the possible serious effects on patient health and their well -being.

Researchers from the University of California in San Diego celebrated today the first anniversary of the Crowdstrike disaster by launching a paper in the Jama Open, and published the Journal of the American Medical Association Network, which for the first time is trying to create an approximate estimate of the number of hospitals that caused its networks to be distinguished on July 19, 2024, as well as.

By wiping the Internet exposed parts of hospital networks before, during and after the crisis, they discovered that at least 759 hospitals in the United States seem to have suffered from disrupting the network of some kind on that day. They found that more than 200 of these hospitals seem to have been specifically exposed to the interruption that directly affected patients, from the health records that cannot be accessed and test the exams to the fetus monitoring systems that were not connected. Of the 2,232 hospitals that they were able to wipe, researchers discovered that 34 percent of them seem to have suffered from a kind of interruption.

Kristian Damf, an UCSD emergency doctor, cyber security researcher, and one of the authors of the paper, says all of this indicates that the power outage could have been an “important public health issue” and one of the authors of the paper. “If we have the data of this paper a year ago when this happened, I think we were more worried about the amount of effect it has on US health care,” he added.

In a statement of WIRED, Croldstrike criticized the UCSD study and the JAMA decision to publish it, describing the paper “unwanted science”. They notice that researchers have not verified that the idle networks run Windows or Crowdstrike, and note that the Microsoft Cloud Azure service has witnessed a significant interruption on the same day, which may be responsible for some hospital network disorders. The statement says: “Extracting conclusions about stopping and the impact of the patient without verifying the results with any of the aforementioned hospitals is completely irresponsible and cannot be defended scientifically.”

The statement adds: “While we reject the methodology and conclusions of this report, we realize the influence that had the accident a year ago.” “As we said from the beginning, we are sincerely apologized to our customers and those affected and we continue to focus on enhancing the flexibility of our platform and industry.”