Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
It could be the first death directly linked to a cybersecurity attack. Experts have been warning for years that this would happen.
A woman in Germany died during a ransomware attack on the Duesseldorf University Hospital, in what may be the first death directly linked to a cyberattack on a hospital. The hospital couldn’t accept emergency patients because of the attack, and the woman was sent to a health care facility around 20 miles away.
The cyberattack was not intended for the hospital. he ransom note was addressed to a nearby university. The attackers stopped the attack after authorities told them it had actually shut down a hospital.
Source: Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital – The Verge
