Ransomware attacks against hospitals are having some very grim consequences
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- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Researchers asked staff working in healthcare about the impact of cyberattacks – and the findings are worrying.
Ransomware attacks against hospitals are having direct consequences for patient care as a result of the reduced availability of systems and services when cyber criminals encrypt networks.
According to a survey of healthcare organisations, ransomware attacks have resulted in patients being kept in hospital longer, delays in tests and procedures – and, most disturbingly of all, an increase in patient deaths.
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