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Ransomware Causes Shutdown of Kentucky Hospital

, Ransomware Causes Shutdown of Kentucky Hospital

Ransomeware

If you have never heard of Ransomeware, it goes like this. An off-site hacker hacks into your computer system, most often a business, encrypts or removes all the files from your computers and stores them in an off-site machine. To get your files back, you must pay the hacker a certain amount of money, and they will then unencrypt or transfer your files back onto your system. It is insidious.

This is what a Kentucky Hospital faced, having all of their files completely removed from their computers, with the prospect of paying thousands of dollars to get them back.

The Solution

Instead of paying the ransom, this particular hospital maintained back-up files that were not connected to their computer system. Fortunately, they were able to go computer by computer and reinstall the pertinent data for each one.

The reinstallation process took weeks and until completed the hospital had to go back to using paper, just like the good old days. Tons of old forms that were packed away in storage needed to be moved back to the working areas, where they were implemented into general use so the hospital did not have to shut down.

It was a grueling process, but it could have been greatly simplified if they had been using powered hand wagons or other hospital maintenance equipment to shuttle tons of paperwork back into use.

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