What about Ransomware? Incidents of computer system hacking and ransomware attacks are chronicled almost eery day. From the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center last yea, the Erie County Medical Center and many others have been victimized by ransomware attacks. Our own Fairview Hospital was recently targeted by hackers who managed, at the very least, to scramble some of the information stored in their system. All Berkshire Health Systems ' computers may have been targeted but I cannot find any mention of the incident in The Berkshire Eagle or other news sources. More on that as I learn more. In the Hollywood Medical Center incident, The criminals encrypted the hospital's complete file system informing the hospital that they would "sell" the decryption keys to the hospital for a fee. The Medical Center eventually paid $17 million dollars in Bitcoin for the keys. Presumably they got access to their patient data. What is Ransomware? The Hollyw
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