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September 17, 2020 02:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Z-0N7yK9ZGs/patient-dies-after-hospital-hit-by-ransomware-attack
Patient Dies After Hospital Hit By Ransomware Attack
wiredmikey writes: A patient died after a German hospital was hit by ransomware attack, when hackers thought they were targeting a university. German authorities said that what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack impacted systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment. Duesseldorf police established contact and told the attacker that the hospital, and not the university, had been affected, endangering patients. The attacker then withdrew the extortion attempt and provided a digital key to decrypt the data.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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