First, they went after Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Next, cybercriminals attacked Ascension, a large nationwide health system with 14 hospitals in Illinois. In both cases, the hospital systems kept providing care, but took down their electronic health record systems and MyChart online patient portals. It took more than a month for Lurie to get all of its systems back online after the January cyberattack.

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