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and it was not. No plane was flying with that software. It was booking services and similar needs. Planes could fly just fine, it was impossible to book people, thou.

My guess is that it's similar in this case. (Site is down)

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Hospital networks and computers running Epic are very much indirect life-support systems, faulire of which can cause lots of injuries and deaths - as we're learning now in real-time.

I'm hearing that most hospital cybersecurity insurance requires Crowdstrike (or a product like it) on all the endpoints, so if that's true the liability might fall back on them. It will be a protracted argument for sure.

This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.

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