Ransomware Takes Hollywood Hospital Offline, $3.6M Demanded by Attackers
The computers at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center have been down for more than a week as the Southern California hospital works to recover from a Ransomware attack, reports CSO.
Officials at HPMC said they’re cooperating fully with the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI in an effort to discover the identity of the attackers. But for now the network is offline and staff are struggling to deal with the loss of email and access to some patient data, the report says.
“The type of Ransomware responsible for shutting down the hospital remains unknown, but one local computer consultant said the ransom being demanded was about 9,000 BTC [Bitcoin], or just over $3.6 million dollars,” according to the report.
