Maryland’s Health Department Compromised After Cyberattack

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — According to officials, a cyberattack took the Maryland Health Department offline this weekend.

The department’s webpage was rerouted to the state’s flagship webpage, www.maryland.gov, arsenic officials went done idiosyncratic systems to find whether immoderate accusation had been stolen.

The cyberattack besides took distant the resources that the website usually has available. This included the pages that invited Maryland residents to use for Medicaid, get information connected section nursing location information and bid escaped at-home investigating for sexually transmitted infections.

The Maryland Security Operations Center is present investigating the incident. In an effort to forestall further damage, definite systems person been taken offline and different precautions person been taken according to the Maryland Department of Health.

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