At least 750 US hospitals were disrupted during the crowdstrike failure of last year

When, a year ago, a Buggy update Crowdstrike has put millions of computers around the world to software that was sold by the cybersecurity company and sent them to a death spiral of repeated restarts. Some of the different Estimates The total damage worldwide has stretched well into the billion dollars.

Now a New study Through a team of medical cyber security researchers, researchers did not take the first steps to quantify the costs of crowdstrikes catastrophe in dollars, but in potential damage to hospitals and their patients in the United States. It shows the evidence that hundreds of these hospitals were interrupted during the failure and cause concerns about the potentially serious effects on the health and well -being of patients.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego were today a one -year anniversary of Crowdstrikes disaster with the publication of a paper in Jama Network Open, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association Network, which is trying for the first time to create a rough estimate of the number of hospitals, whose networks on July 19, 2024, and that, What on July 19, on January, on what on July, on July, what on the way on the way on the way was on the use.

A diagram that shows a massive increase in the recognized medical service cases on the day of Crowdstrike’s accidents.

With the kind permission of UCSD and Jama Network Open

By scanning internet-exposed parts of hospital networks before, during and after the crisis, they found that at least 759 hospitals in the United States seem to have had a network disorder on this day. They found that more than 200 of these hospitals were particularly affected by failures in which the patients were directly affected, from inaccessible health records and test scans to fetal surveillance systems that went offline. Of the 2,232 hospital networks they could scan, the researchers realized that 34 percent of them apparently suffered from any kind of disorders.

All of this indicates that the crowdstrike failure could have been an “important problem of public health”, argues Christian Dameff, a UCSD emergency doctor and cybersecurity researcher and one of the authors of the newspaper. “If we had the data of this paper a year ago,” he adds, “I think we would be much more concerned about how much influence it really had on the US health care.”

In an explanation of cable, Crowdstrike criticized the UCSD study and Jama’s decision to publish it and called the paper “Junk Science”. They find that the researchers have not checked whether the disturbed networks of Windows or Crowdstrike carried out, and pointed out that the Cloud Service from Microsoft experienced a large failure on the same day, which was possibly responsible for some of the disorders of the hospital network. “To draw conclusions about downtimes and patient effects without checking the results with one of the hospitals mentioned is completely responsible and scientifically unattalled,” says the explanation.

“While we reject the methodology and conclusions of this report, we recognize how the incident affects a year ago,” added the explanation. “As we said from the start, we sincerely apologize to our customers and those affected and continue to concentrate on strengthening the resistance of our platform and the industry.”