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At small and rural hospitals, ransomware attacks are causing unprecedented crises

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Dissent

Marion Renault reports:

At 12:08 p.m. on a Monday, a Sky Lakes Medical Center employee tapped an email link.

Within minutes, that click cracked open the Oregon hospital’s digital infrastructure for cybercriminals to infiltrate. By the time IT staff started looking into it, “everything was being encrypted,” said John Gaede, director of information services. On a note discovered in a server, the attackers announced the 100-bed Klamath Falls hospital had been hit with ransomware.

“None of us have ever experienced anything like this,” Gaede said. The ramifications were sweeping.

Read more at StatNews.


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