Hollywood hospital held to ransom by hackers
Dave Lee

LOS ANGELES: -- Ransomware is a growing menace for computer users - but when a hospital is targeted, it makes the disruption far more serious.

Computer systems at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center have been offline for more than a week following a ransomware attack.

According to local news sources, hackers were said to have demanded $3.4m (£2.4m) to provide the codes to unlock the stolen data.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35584081


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Now to that to a hospital it is a heartless and despicable act of piracy putting the lives of many people at risk,

I hope they will get caught and sentenced to lengthy terms in jail...

Now to that to a hospital it is a heartless and despicable act of piracy putting the lives of many people at risk,

I hope they will get caught and sentenced to lengthy terms in jail...

Those people are heartless and despicable.

Be warned if you have internet banking- it's only going to get worse. They are as clever as the people trying to stop them.

Now if only they used their "powers" for good things ... like encrypting the data of the 3 letter spy agencies...

why aint they attacking ISIS instead,.

why aint they attacking ISIS instead,.

How do you know they ain't IS themselves? Nice little earner.