The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, a 430+ beds hospital in the middle of Los Angeles, has been hit by a cyber-attack and its systems are now being held hostage by hackers that are demanding a ransom.
The incident took place at the start of February but was kept quiet the hospital’s staff and management, who called in local police and the FBI to help investigate the incident, along with a cyber-forensics firm.
Hackers want 9,000 Bitcoin
The hackers are requesting a 9,000 Bitcoin ransom, which is about $3.6 million (€3.2 million) in today’s currency to release the “electronic keys” to unlock computers. There are no details about how this happened since everyone is keeping quiet, but two plausible scenarios exist.
The first is that ransomware hit the hospital’s IT network and spread to numerous computers via a local LAN server, and the total ransom for each infected computer amounts to around 9,000 Bitcoin. For the full article click here
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