All posts tagged "ransomware"

  • FILE - In this July 22, 2003, file photo, nurses evacuate a patient after a fire broke out on the third floor of the 434-bed the formerly named Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, with visibly blackened windows, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. The FBI says Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, it is investigating a computer network extortion plot at the Los Angeles hospital. In the attacks known as "ransomware," hackers lock up an institution's computer network and demand payment to reopen them. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Wednesday that the agency is investigating such a plot at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
    LA hospital paid 17K ransom to hackers of its computer network

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles hospital paid a ransom in bitcoins equivalent to about $17,000 to hackers who infiltrated and disabled its computer network, the medical center’s chief executive said Wednesday. It was in the...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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