{"id":1025524,"date":"2026-08-26T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025524\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:50:20","slug":"boston-scientific-says-a-cyberattack-is-disrupting-its-global-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025524\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is disrupting its global operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical device maker Boston Scientific said on Wednesday that a cyberattack disrupted its global operations, including systems it relies on to process and ship customer orders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which Boston Scientific said it uncovered on Tuesday, continues to affect the company&#8217;s business as it works to restore operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/ix?doc=\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/0000885725\/000088572526000056\/bsx-20260826.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">securities<\/a>\u00a0filing on Wednesday, the global manufacturer said it has engaged outside cybersecurity experts to investigate the incident and &#8220;contain the threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The incident has caused, and is expected to continue to cause, disruptions and limitations of access to certain of the Company&#8217;s information systems and business applications that support aspects of the Company&#8217;s operations, including the ability to process and ship customer orders,&#8221; Boston Scientific said in the filing. &#8220;While the Company is working diligently to restore affected functions and systems access, the timeline for a full restoration is not yet known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boston Scientific shares fell as much as 6% in early trading.<\/p>\n<p>The healthcare sector is the largest target for cybercriminals, according to research from BlackFog, a cybersecurity firm. In 2025, the industry accounted for 22% of disclosed attacks, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfog.com\/register-for-2025-state-of-ransomware-annual-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">annual<\/a> ransomware report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boston Scientific makes a range of medical treatment technologies, including devices to support heart health, for cancer care and to detect gastrointestinal conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--editors\">\n      Edited by<\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/alain-sherter\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alain  Sherter<\/a>\n                      <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n              Go deeper with The Free Press\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical device maker Boston Scientific said on Wednesday that a cyberattack disrupted its global operations, including systems it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1025525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[35],"tags":[14461,210,1141,1142,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1025524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-cyberattack","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117162608174157296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}