Jeanette Hinkle of the Arizona Republic reports:
Mike Nelson often comes to work early, around 6 a.m., so it was Nelson who first discovered the message.
Nelson, an information-technology technician for Wickenburg Community Hospital, found it glowing on a computer screen in the emergency department.
In Times New Roman font was the word “Ryuk.” In the bottom left corner of the screen was the phrase “balance of the shadow universe.”
Nelson immediately sounded the alarm: The small non-profit Wickenburg Community Hospital, in a community of just under 8,000 residents, had been hit by a ransomware attack, and Nelson was having trouble accessing the hospital’s files.
Read more on AZCentral.