The second largest hospital group in Nashville experienced a ransomware attack about two months ago. Nurses told me they were using manual processes for three weeks.
It takes a certain type of a criminal a55hole to attack hospitals and blackmail them. I would easily support life or death penalty for anyone attempting this cr@p.
Yes. And I was told by multiple nurses at St. Thomas Midtown that the hospital did not have manual procedures already in place. In their press release they refer to their hospitals as "ministries" [0], so apparently they practice faith-based cyber security (as in "we believe that we don't need backups") since it took over 3 weeks to recover.
