Beaumont Hospital Press Release December 16, 2017

I have some surprising news that has surprised us all. We discovered two hours ago that an unknown adversary had breached our database system and taken important data from us. It appears that the situation has prompted extensive emergency responses, and our officials are already investigating it to find a long-term solution (Davis, Piger, & Sedor, 2012). I’d want to let you know that our internal and field professionals are doing everything they can to contain the problem as soon as possible. We have aimed to provide the best and secure medical services, which mean that we will not stop until our client’s information is safe. We urge all the stakeholders and our esteemed clients to have their full trust in us as we rectify the situation.

A while ago, we notified all our customers regarding the condition, and we urge them not to panic as we deal with the situation. They should still maintain their loyalty to us as we continue offering the best services as we have been doing in the last 15 years. It is during this time that we rely heavily on their unconditional support. As they shared our success in the previous years, we are optimistic that they will still be with us during these dark times. We have already recovered three-quarters of the data, and with time, their information will be secure in our hands again

Until now, we are doing our best to ensure that the condition is rectified. The most critical step is that we have identified the vulnerabilities in the problems. It’s unfortunate to report that one of our senior employees was a key figure in the hacking process. Without any fear, we have handed him to the authorities and investigations are underway to identify other loopholes that might be missed.

Notably, the healthcare facility has secured a legal and security counsel to help in this war on hacking. Apparently, the team will assist the organization in drafting communication tools and advising on various issues especially when the company files a lawsuit against the affected parties. In addition, the security and the legal counsel will also advise on the proper channels of credit card monitoring of the involved parties among other issues (Minchev, Dukov, Boyadzhiev, & Mateev, 2016).

We are aware that the hacking might happen again in future. Therefore, we have taken various steps to ensure that it will not happen in the near future. First, we have hired experts to reformat all the hacked devises. In addition, we have restored all the data to ensure that a clean backup process is enhanced as advised by our counsel (Bernhard, 1982). We did not stop at that for efficiency. We updated all the security channels and passwords, which will be under one individual. It means that one senior employee who will be held responsible in case of a breach or human-caused security failure will govern all the security details of the entire database.

Dr. Salim Bright, our chief clinical officer, said, “Beaumont Hospital has been one of the leading healthcare facilities in the world. We are dedicated to providing the best to our clients including securing their information, and we will stop at nothing until the situation is neutralized. We have hired the best experts in various fields, and essentially, the problem will never occur again. I want to assure the world that it’s the first time that we have been faced with such a crises and it will be the last.” With that, I believe that we will win this war.

References

Bernhard, R. (1982). Breaching system security . IEEE Spectrum, 19(6), 24-31.

Davis, A. K., Piger, J. M., & Sedor, L. M. (2012). Beyond the numbers: Measuring the information content of earnings press release language. Contemporary Accounting Research, 29(3), 845-868.

Minchev, Z., Dukov, G., Boyadzhiev, D., & Mateev, P. (2016). Future Cyber Attacks Modelling & Forecasting. PROBLEMS & FINAL REPORTS, 77.