Article 145S4 Los Angeles hospital returns to faxes and paper charts after cyberattack

Los Angeles hospital returns to faxes and paper charts after cyberattack

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Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco
from Technology | The Guardian on (#145S4)

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center's computer system was infected with ransomware, which has rendered records inaccessible until $3.6m bounty is paid

A cyberattack has sent doctors and nurses at a large Los Angeles hospital back to the dark ages - or at least back to the pre-electronic health record days of the 1990s.

The computer systems at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center were, according to a report on NBC, infected on 5 February with ransomware, a computer virus that encrypts a target's files, locking the owner out of their own data until a bounty is paid.

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