{"id":231497,"date":"2026-04-05T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:15:11","slug":"maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine House rejects hospital cybersecurity bill after recent attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks\">Maine House rejects hospital cybersecurity bill after recent attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks\">https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-05 13:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wgme.com\">wgme.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUGUSTA, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Earlier this week at the state house, the Maine House unanimously voted against a bill which would have helped prevent cybersecurity attacks on Maine hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would require hospitals to adopt a cybersecurity plan and include provisions for hospitals to notify  law enforcement in case of an attack, as well as establish backup communication systems.<\/p>\n<p>The bill sponsor believes these changes would help to ensure continuity of patient care, and protect patient data.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, two separate cyber-incidents breached data from five hospitals across Maine.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks threatened patient care for weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine House rejects hospital cybersecurity bill after recent attacks https:\/\/wgme.com\/news\/local\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks Publish Date: 2026-04-05 13:03:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wgme.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/1276\/1320\/47x0\/90\/16836272-c22d-4320-8750-a9055e6a781e-cybersecurity.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231499,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231497\/revisions\/231499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}