More than 100 Romanian hospitals offline after bitcoin ransom demand
More than 100 Romanian hospitals were taken offline this month after a ransomware group attacked their IT systems, encrypted data, and demanded a bitcoin ransom worth $174,000, according to the country’s National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC). The DNSC revealed that 25 hospitals using the Hipocrate Information System (HIS) have been directly impacted, while computers in another 79 have been taken offline as authorities figure out the scale of the attack. Romania's ongoing hospital ransomware attack is getting worse. Cyber security centre said last night that 21 hospitals have had computers encrypted. A chidren's hospital was the first to get hit but now it's spread. Computers in 79 other medical facilities have been unplugged pic.twitter.com/rdsX31VhFd — Joe Tidy (@joetidy) February 13, 2024 Read more: Bitcoin ransomware gang claims to have hacked major UK water provider The Romanian security agency claims it doesn’t know who attacked the system...
