Patient dies after ransomware attack reroutes her to remote hospital
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A woman seeking emergency treatment for a life-threatening condition died after a ransomware attack crippled a nearby hospital in Duesseldorf, Germany, and forced her to obtain services from a more distant facility, it was widely reported on Thursday.Further ReadingWhy is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?German authorities are investigating the unknown perpetrators on suspicion of negligent manslaughter, the Associated Press, German news outlet NTV, and others reported on Thursday. The justice minister report said that the attackers are no longer reachable.Further ReadingRansomware forces 3 hospitals to turn away all but the most critical patientsHospital officials said on Twitter that the infection occurred after attackers exploited a vulnerability in a “widely used commercial add-on software,” which the tweet didn’t identify.
As said here by Dan Goodin