Hollywood Presbyterian Medical middle’s computer system was infected with ransomware,which has rendered records inaccessible until $3.6m bounty is paidA cyberattack has sent doctors and nurses at a large Los Angeles hospital back to the dark ages – or at least back to the pre-electronic health record days of the 1990s. The computer systems at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical middle were, according to a report on NBC, or infected on 5 February with ransomware,a computer virus that encrypts a target’s files, locking the owner out of their own data until a bounty is paid. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com