AnMed’s cybersecurity outage drags into 5th day, closures unchanged

Giles Bruce / beckershospitalreview - Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed’s cybersecurity incident has stretched into a fifth day, with the same 13 service and practice locations closed as of Wednesday that were shuttered the day before. Closed locations include imaging sites in Anderson, Cannon, Clem…

AI Summary: AnMed’s IT outage stretched into its fifth day, forcing clinic disruptions and emergency contingency operations; later updates show some physician offices reopening while patients were alerted to suspicious messages tied to the incident. The episode underscores how a single cyber event can make a hospital’s day-to-day look, well, medieval.

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