Hospital Pays Hacker’s Ransom In Bitcoins

[Moloch]

Hospital Pays Hacker’s Ransom In Bitcoins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ppg3p3BMA

A 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_56c59e78e4b0b40245c921ad

The 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#History

In 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

[salinizm]

Hospital Pays Hacker’s Ransom In Bitcoins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ppg3p3BMA

A 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_56c59e78e4b0b40245c921ad

The 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#History

In 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

yes , i completely agree with you .. satoshi should follow alfred's example..

[Zeke2345]

Their are some disturbed people out there,thinking to even hack into the hospital to hold it ransom is cold.
Lately crackheads have been breaking into food banks and search and rescue vans to grab easy loot or tools to pawn.
Thought that was low but the hospital antics are most likely a start of something new and more frequent.

[Moloch]

There are some disturbed people out there, even thinking to hack into the hospital to hold it ransom is cold.
Lately crackheads have been breaking into food banks and search and rescue vans to grab easy loot or tools to pawn.
Thought that was low but the hospital antics are most likely a start of something new and more frequent.

It is a similar situation to Alfred Nobel...

Nobel invented dynamite to make mining easier... you can use dynamite to blast through a mountain to make a road...

But, you can also use dynamite to blow up a building, or murder innocent people...


Same goes for bitcoin... it has now enabled a hacker to get away with holding a hospital for ransom... what if someone died? (someone probably did)

The hacker would have never attempted doing this before bitcoin... you can't have the hospital write you a check and not get caught...