Melbourne Hospitals Declare Code Yellow Following IT Outage
Cyber attack has not been confirmed
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A number of Melbourne hospitals have declared a code yellow after being hit by a major IT outage on Thursday morning.
Victoria’s Eastern Health Services have declared a “code yellow internal emergency” following an IT outage.
Systems are currently down at both Angliss Hospital and Box Hill Hospital.
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According to Eastern Health, contingency plans have been initiated across both hospitals.
"The issue has been caused by a critical core switch outage that we are currently working to rectify," they said in a statement.
"Hospital systems have reverted to downtime procedures and business continuity plans have been enacted,
"We will continue to keep our staff, patients and healthcare partners informed as the situation unfolds."
There has not yet been any evidence of a cyber-attack uncovered.
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