Ransomware attack disrupts healthcare services in at least three US states

New Delhi: A ransomware attack this past week on a California-based health care system forced some of its locations to close and left others to rely on paper records.

The system, Prospect Medical Holdings, which operates 16 hospitals and more than 165 clinics and outpatient centers in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Southern California, announced the cyberattack Thursday.

A Prospect Medical spokesperson could not estimate Saturday when services would return to normal. It was not immediately clear how many of the system’s sites were affected.