A cyberattack on Signature Healthcare, first detected April 6, 2026, disrupted critical systems at Signature Healthcare and Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, forcing downtime procedures, ambulance diversions, and outages that impacted laboratory testing, pharmacy services, and administrative operations. Chemotherapy infusions were temporarily canceled and later phased back in while surgeries and urgent care continued with delays, and the health system is working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate and restore affected systems. #SignatureHealthcare #SignatureHealthcareBrocktonHospital
Keypoints
- Incident detected April 6, 2026, triggering immediate incident response and downtime procedures.
- System outages forced staff to use manual processes and led to ambulance diversions.
- Cancer patients had chemotherapy infusions canceled on April 7 and treatments were gradually resumed.
- Laboratory testing, pharmacy dispensing, and medical records requests experienced delays or temporary suspension.
- External cybersecurity experts are assisting the health system in investigating the attack and restoring services.
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