An Alaska hospital boosted its cybersecurity after two alarming hacking incidents, KFSK reported.
In October, a medical resident at Petersburg (Alaska) Medical Center was presenting at a hospital board meeting about continuing the hospital's daycare program, her toddler by her side, when a hacker took control of the Zoom meeting, chatting racial slurs and displaying a video of a man exposing himself, according to the Sept. 12 story.
"Because there were small children in the room, we actually went to the FBI, [and] gave them all the information as far as trying to find who the attacker was," hospital CIO Jill Dormer told the public radio station. "All of which is nearly impossible, because they were using random IP addresses."
Then this spring, one of the hospital's printers was hacked, causing it to print pages and pages of political propaganda, according to the story.
"We need to be vigilant to make sure that we're adapting and keeping up with this ever-changing world that we're in," Ms. Dormer told the news outlet. "And the only way to really do that is to make sure that we're collaborating with our vendors and using all the right tools and doing the education that we need."