Hospital Pays Hacker’s Ransom In Bitcoins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ppg3p3BMAA Los Angeles hospital paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoin to hacker who took over its electronic system. This is Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and apparently they didn’t have access to electronic communications to one another. Allen Stefanek said in a statement at paying the ransom was the quickest and most efficient way of regaining access to affected systems. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Would you have paid the ransom? Let us know in the comments below.
Read more here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hospital-pays-hackers-ransom_us_56c59e78e4b0b40245c921adThe president of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center said on Wednesday that his hospital paid hackers a ransom of $17,000 in bitcoins to regain control of their computer systems after a cyber attack.Allen Stefanek said in a statement that
paying the ransom was the "quickest and most efficient way" of regaining access to the affected systems, which were crippled on Feb. 5 and interfered with hospital staff's ability to communicate electronically.
Stefanek said there was
no evidence that any patient or employee information was accessed in the so-called malware attack, and that the hospital fully restored access to its electronic medical record system this Monday.
Whenever I see an article like this it makes me think of Alfred Nobel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#HistoryIn 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper. As it was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died, the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered. This inspired him to change his will...
To widespread astonishment, Nobel's last will specified that his fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Nobel bequeathed 94% of his total assets, 31 million SEK (c. US$186 million, €150 million in 2008), to establish the five Nobel Prizes.
No pressure or anything, but it would be pretty cool of that Satoshi Nakamoto guy followed Alfred's example... I hear he has a few bitcoin sitting around gathering dust
