Ransomware in the hospital – only now a danger?!
The attack on a hospital with ransomware can have far-reaching consequences for the healthcare sector. In addition to the loss or theft of data, the failure of IT systems is also a crisis situation for hospital business. The damage from this is not only delayed medical care, but also financially this event can develop into an existential threat. Especially when there is blackmail involving large sums of money. This makes it all the more surprising that it is only now that this danger posed by ransomware to hospitals is being publicly addressed and specifically warned against. The example of a hospital network in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which was affected by ransomware in 2019 and had to compensate for several days of IT outages, is representative of many more events of this kind, most of which have not been publicly discussed. It is estimated that about 64% of hospitals [...]