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Kevin Perry today forwarded me this article
that tells how a patient died due to a ransomware attack on a major hospital in
Dusseldorf. Because 30 servers at the hospital had been encrypted in the
attack, a woman who needed urgent admission couldn’t be admitted, and she died
on her way to another hospital.
Ironically, it seems the attackers thought they’d attacked
the university with which the hospital is affiliated. When the contact listed
on the extortion note was told that they’d actually attacked a hospital, they
immediately provided the encryption key. But it was too late for the woman.
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