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Hundreds of health care facilities were hit by ransomware last year amid pandemic

Hundreds of health care facilities were hit by ransomware last year amid pandemic

CNN
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 2:01 PM GMT

At the University of Vermont Medical Center in October, a cyberattack knocked out 5,000 computers on the hospital's IT network, disrupting everything from its financial systems to its radiology services and sleep studies. Patient care ground to a halt -- and the outage lasted for weeks.

"We really did not anticipate the scope or the impact the attack had on our system and how far-reaching it was," the organization's president, Dr. Stephen Leffler, told reporters at a December news conference. Staff at the facility had been trained to handle outages of 3 to 5 days at most. What hit UVM Medical Center was far worse: "Thirty days of downtime, going across all systems, was a true challenge for our staff -- it was a challenge for our patients." UVM Medical Center is one of many health care facilities — in the middle of a global pandemic, no less — to fall victim to ransomware, an increasingly common form of malicious software that criminals use to seize control of computers and often refuse to unlock until the victim pays a fee.
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