Comment on How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoI don’t think these two are related.
Change Healthcare (company who handles most electronic prescription platforms) had a ransomware attack a couple weeks ago that took down their entire infrastructure for multiple days.
Doctors and pharmacies were likely using paper scripts because the entire electronic prescription platform was shutdown.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I had 7 prescriptions sent over at once and got one on paper. The doctor told me this was the reason that the one controlled substance was given to me on paper.
Also I had been given this need electronically once before a couple months prior.