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Parkview Medical Center confirms cyber attack

Posted at 7:20 PM, Apr 24, 2020
and last updated 2020-04-24 21:20:42-04

PUEBLO — News 5 has learned on Friday night that Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo was the target of a cyber attack on Tuesday, April 21st.

The result of the attack was a number of outages in Parkview's IT systems.

Upon learning of the incident, Parkview immediately engaged leading third-party forensic experts to investigate and mitigation is well underway..

Parkview officials says that patients still remain their number one priority and will not see any impact to the level or quality of care being delivered.

Currently, the IT systems are not working, but Parkview trains and prepares for scenarios like this. The medical center is doing everything they can to bring our systems back online as quickly and securely as possible.

We will update this article as more information becomes available.