Criminal hackers now target hospitals, police stations and schools
Reading Time: < 1 | Published: April 13, 2016 in Industry News
Tags: education, Government, hackers, healthcare
Three weeks ago, a debilitating digital virus spread quickly in computer networks at three Southern California hospitals owned by Prime Healthcare Services, encrypting medical and other data so it was impossible to access.
Using a pop-up window, unidentified hackers demanded about $17,000 in the hard-to-trace cybercurrency called bitcoin for the digital key to unlock the data.
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