{"id":20816,"date":"2019-04-23T07:55:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=20816"},"modified":"2019-04-23T07:47:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:47:53","slug":"algoma-public-health-hit-with-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/23\/algoma-public-health-hit-with-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Algoma Public Health hit with Ransomware Attack &#8211; Tuesday Appointments Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algoma Public Health (APH) was hit with a ransomware attack on the morning of Friday, April 19 that blocked access to the APH servers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears no personal information or client information was taken,\u201d said Dr. Marlene Spruyt, Medical Officer of Health at Algoma Public Health. \u201cOur IT department was able to quickly disconnect the servers from the internet on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we continue to get all our services back online, all appointments at all offices are cancelled for Tuesday, April 23, 2019. We apologize for the inconvenience. As more information becomes available, we will release it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our offices remain open and staff are available to assist you. Our email system has not been restored but our phone lines are working. If you need to connect with a staff member please call:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wawa: 705-856-7208<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sault Ste. Marie: 705-942-4646<br \/>\nBlind River: 705-356-2551<br \/>\nElliot Lake: 705-848-2314<br \/>\nWawa: 705-856-7208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algoma Public Health (APH) was hit with a ransomware attack on the morning of Friday, April 19 that blocked access to the APH servers. \u201cIt appears no personal information or client information was taken,\u201d said Dr. Marlene Spruyt, Medical Officer of Health at Algoma Public Health. \u201cOur IT department was able to quickly disconnect the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 19:12:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20819,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions\/20819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}