Hackers attack Romanian hospital and demand ransom for Bitcoin -
Hackers attack Romanian hospital and demand ransom for Bitcoin -
A hospital in Romania was the goal of a ransomware attack in which the perpetrators claimed a payment in cryptocurrency to decipher his database. The hack prevents the medical facility from reporting to the country's health insurance company in order to receive adequate financing.
Botoşani hospital blackmailed for Bitcoin, Romanian media reports
The Saint Ghorghe Recovery Hospital in Botoşani in northeast Romania has become the goal of hackers who have blocked its medical records from December and requested a payment in cryptocurrency to restore access to the files.
After compromising the server, they encrypted the data and left a message in English in which you have a ransom of 3 requested bitcoin $ 50,000 to current exchange rates), the local news agency Monitorul de Botoşani From the English -language portal Romania Insider.
The attack was well prepared, the publication says. Neither the computer specialists of the management to investigate organized crime and terrorism nor experts from the Romanian cyber security company Bitdefender were able to decipher the information.
dr. Cătălin Dascălescu, the managing director of the hospital, said journalists that the law enforcement authorities had initiated an investigation. "We hope to be able to resume medical activity with normal capacity from Monday," he added without revealing further details.
Since its database has been hijacked, the hospital cannot submit its reports for the services provided in the last month of 2022 and receive the corresponding payments.
However,officials from National Health Insurance Romania said that they were working on a solution that would enable the medical staff to maintain their salaries.
The investigators believe that the hackers from afar over the systems of a company that is responsible for maintaining computer equipment have accessed the data.
This is not the first hacking incident of this kind in Romania in recent years. In summer 2019, four other hospitals were attacked in a similar way. Hospitals and healthcare providers in the USA were also victims
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