Hospital Gets Hacked with Ransomware

It's been noted by a number of security specialists that this will be the year of medical hacks. Not only hacking medical devices but hospital IT infrastructure. I seems like a lot of victims are just paying up. This one is demanding about $1600 in bit coins. I guess that's not a lot to pay for a hospital to get back online if the attackers actually deliver with the decryption key. There's no guarantee that they won't  just encrypt the system again.

From CNBC:

Methodist Hospital, based in Henderson, Kentucky, is the victim of a ransomware attack in which hackers infiltrated its computer network, encrypted files and are now holding the data hostage, Krebs reported Tuesday.