'Everybody Is Just Scrambling': Nationwide Cyber Attack Delays Bay Area Pharmacy Orders

KQED

People across the Bay Area are clamoring to fill essential medications after a cyber attack last Wednesday disrupted data transmission lines between health care providers, insurance companies and pharmacies.

East Bay resident Alison Hightower is among them.

For two days, she has been trying to refill a medication her husband takes for nerve damage. When she tried to pick it up, the pharmacist at her local Safeway on College Avenue in Oakland said they had been unable to fill most prescriptions since the hack against UnitedHealth Group Inc. last week.