Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va., went into a lockdown this morning for approximately four hours after an IT issue affected some clinical and security systems, reports MetroNews.
Ruby Memorial Hospital, the largest hospital in the West Virginia University Hospitals family, started experiencing network issues around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Computers and applications controlled by computers were malfunctioning, according to a hospital statement obtained by WDTV.
"There was a cascade of issues and it just went throughout the institution, and around 2:30 this morning one of our administrators said this is pretty serious, and this is something we need to address," Amy Johns, a hospital spokeswoman, told MetroNews.
The IT issue caused the security cameras to go offline, so the hospital went on lockdown for approximately four hours until 8 a.m.
The hospital indicates the issues were possibly caused by malware or a virus, but there is no indication any patient privacy or records have been compromised.
"Patient information and employee information has not been compromised," Ms. Johns said in the report. "This is not an attempt to steal data. There is no indication that any data has left the building. It just appears that it was a mawlare or a virus."
The hospital is operating normally, but there may be residual delays at outpatient centers, according to the report.
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