Cyber criminals have made “multiple” attacks on Cornwall’s main hospital in the past year with repeated attempts to hold health bosses to ransom by stealing sensitive information. According to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the IT system of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) was once infected ransom-ware, a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.
At one point between 2012 and 2016, the RCHT’s IT system was infected with ransom-ware, a malicious programme which can result in the lock down of an entire network which will not be released until a sum of money is paid.
The spokesman for the trust said the IT infection was resolved by the trust’s in-house team of software engineers and that police were not informed as the problem was solved.
The RCHT has confirmed that it has both end-point and anti-virus software installed on its computers. For the full article click here
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