Executive Summary

A ransomware group claimed responsibility for an attack that caused an IT outage at Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, shutting down its electronic health record, patient portal, internet access, and diagnostic imaging services on Aug. 14. The outage forced the emergency department to partially divert trauma and critical patients.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: DataBreaches.net - Published Date: 2026-09-15T11:49:38+00:00 - Category: threat-intel

Original Description: DysruptionHub reports: Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, shut down its IT networks Aug. 14 after a disruption left its electronic health record, patient portal and internet access unavailable. The outage also disrupted diagnostic imaging. Hospital systems could not transmit images to radiologists, so the emergency department partially diverted trauma and critical... Source

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