Boston Children’s Hospital Affiliate Experiences Malware Attack With Downtime For Three Days

On February 10, 2020, Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC), a physician group affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital, experienced a malware attack that caused a system outage. This outage prevented its 500+ pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in more than 100 practices across Massachusetts from accessing consumer care data, and scheduling calendars. It is currently unclear what type of malware was involved, and whether hackers were able to gain access to consumer data as a result of the attack.

PPOC has approximately 350,000 health care consumers, and uses about 200 servers for its computing and data . . .