DEC 6, 3:41 PM

Maryland Health Department Website Shut Down Due To Cyberattack

Dominique Maria Bonessi https://twitter.com/dbonessi

Starting Sunday through Monday midday, much the Maryland Department of Health website was taken offline due to a cyberattack. The breach was one of many that have occurred in the region in the past two years.

Since Sunday, the department’s website has been rerouted to Maryland.gov, and while many links are still working, dozens of MDH resources and services, including information about the Medicaid program, opioid data dashboard, are unavailable online. MDH’s COVID Link website, the Medicare open enrollment website, and Maryland’s Opioid Operational Command Center website appear to still be in operation.

The department’s website was taken offline “out of an abundance of caution and other precautions have and will be taken,” Andy Owen, a spokesperson for the department told DCist/WAMU in an email. Owen added that the state’s security operations center is working with state and federal law enforcement officials to investigate the incident and there is no evidence that data has been compromised.

“The investigation is ongoing, potentially affected employees and partners have been informed, and we will provide additional information as circumstances warrant,” Owen wrote.

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