Mom blames infant daughter's death on hospital attacked by ransomware
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An Alabama woman whose 9-month-old daughter died has filed a suit against the hospital where she was born claiming it did not disclose that its computer systems had been crippled by a cyberattack, which resulted in diminished care that resulted in the baby's death.
Springhill Medical Center was besieged by a ransomware attack when Nicko Silar was born July 17, 2019. The resulting failure of electronic devices meant a doctor could not properly monitor the child's condition during delivery, according to the lawsuit by Teiranni Kidd, the child's mother.
"The number of health care providers who would normally monitor her labor and delivery was substantially reduced and important safety-critical layers of redundancy were eliminated," the suit claims.
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