Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom to Hacker for Unlocking Medical Records

Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom to Hacker for Unlocking Medical Records

Ransomware has seriously turned on to a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly.

Once again the heat was felt by the Los Angeles-based Presbyterian Medical Center when a group of hackers had sealed all its sensitive files and demanded $17,000 USD to regain the access to those compromised data.

The devastation of the compromised files can be pitched as:

• Compromised emails


• Lockout Electronic Medical Record System [EMR]


• Encrypted patient data


• Unable to carry CT Scans of the admitted patients


• Ferried risky patients to nearby hospitals

…and much more unexplained outcomes.

The hospital had confirmed that the Ransomware malware had hit its core heart a week before, potentially affecting the situation to grow much worse.

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