Ruby Memorial of the WVU Medical Center
in Morgantown is the latest hospital computer system infected and held for ransom by
criminals.
As many as 200 Information Technology staff members have been working around the clock since the issue was detected Tuesday morning in 3,600 of the 14,000 computers.
It began with a $17,000 ransom payoff
by Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
in Los Angeles.
Other hospitals hacked and ransom demanded:
Methodist Hospital
in Henderson, Kentucky; and in California, also Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino
and Desert Valley Hospital of Victorville, both part of Prime Healthcare
Services.
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