Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a roughly $17,000 ransom in Bitcoins to free itself from a cyberattack that crippled its internal computer system, the hospital’s president said Wednesday.
The attack began Feb. 5, preventing hospital staff from accessing selected computer systems and blocking electronic communications, according to hospital President/CEO Allen Stefanek.
“Law enforcement was immediately notified,” he said. “Computer experts immediately began assisting us in determining the outside source of the issue and bringing our systems back online.”
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