{"id":7001,"date":"2026-04-05T22:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks-wgme\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:04:55","slug":"maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks-wgme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/maine-house-rejects-hospital-cybersecurity-bill-after-recent-attacks-wgme\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine House rejects hospital cybersecurity bill after recent attacks &#8211; WGME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now<br \/>44<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>Mon<br \/>47<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>Tue<br \/>40<span class=\"WeatherWidget_degreeSymbol__vwqJi\">\u00b0<\/span><br \/>U.S. forces safely rescued the second F-15E airman of a fighter jet that went down on Friday.<br \/>by<!-- --> <!-- -->WGME Staff<br \/>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.<br \/>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.<br \/>The bill sponsor believes these changes would help to ensure continuity of patient care, and protect patient data.<br \/>Last year, two separate cyber-incidents breached data from five hospitals across Maine.<br \/>The attacks threatened patient care for weeks.<br \/> <!-- -->2026<!-- --> <!-- -->Sinclair, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxPaGVKb1k2LUhlTnZjUTJYNUgwZlVsVGdxOUFSekk3Zmc0WUdNWmJZQmFpSG9ZdWZQOGpoTjRQZkxtN0ZvellweEpxMkU3ZHRrQ3k1MGtVNkJlZ0ZqaXdjT3BuVXFTaWZnMGQ3c3EwWEF3Zmh1em9US3Zpbi11U0o2cEI5dTFBVGZ6ZzlsODdsM2RaZWNxeHgtb2ZRaTc?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now44\u00b0Mon47\u00b0Tue40\u00b0U.S. forces safely rescued the second F-15E airman of a fighter jet that went down on Friday.by WGME StaffAUGUSTA, 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.The bill would require hospitals to adopt a cybersecurity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}