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When, one year ago today, a buggy update<\/a> to software sold by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down millions of computers around the world and sent them into a death spiral of repeated reboots, the global cost of all those crashed machines was equivalent to one of the worst cyberattacks in history. Some of the various<\/a> estimates<\/a> of the total damage worldwide have stretched well into the billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Now a new study<\/a> by a team of medical cybersecurity researchers has taken the first steps toward quantifying the cost of CrowdStrike’s disaster not in dollars, but in potential harm to hospitals and their patients across the US. It reveals evidence that hundreds of those hospitals’ services were disrupted during the outage, and raises concerns about potentially grave effects to patients\u2019 health and well-being.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the University of California San Diego today marked the one-year anniversary of CrowdStrike’s catastrophe by releasing a paper in JAMA Network Open, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association Network, that attempts for the first time to create a rough estimate of the number of hospitals whose networks were affected by that IT meltdown on July 19, 2024, as well as which services on those networks appeared to have been disrupted.<\/p>\n

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