{"id":945,"date":"2020-04-10T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=945"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T10:43:17","slug":"report-alabama-hospitals-pay-hackers-in-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Report: Alabama hospitals pay hackers in ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/duqcs43tabg.jpg\" alt=\"ransomware\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                Credit: CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>An Alabama hospital system that quit accepting new patients after a ransomware attack said Saturday it had gotten a key to unlock its computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>A statement from DCH Health Systems didn&#8217;t say how the three-hospital system got the information needed to unlock its data. But The Tuscaloosa News quoted spokesman Brad Fisher as saying the hospital system paid the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For ongoing security reasons, we will be keeping confidential specific details about the investigation and our coordination with the attacker,&#8221; Fisher told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The company stopped accepting new patients at its hospitals in Tuscaloosa, Northport and Fayette because of a ransomware attack that hit early Tuesday. New patients were sent to hospitals in Birmingham and Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals will continue diverting all but the most critically ill patients through the weekend, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The hospitals said hackers used the ransomware variant Ryuk to lock its files, but the hack didn&#8217;t compromise the care of patients. Workers reverted to using paper files.<\/p>\n<p>The three hospitals, which mostly serve west Alabama, have about 850 beds total and admitted more than 32,000 patients last year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: CC0 Public Domain An Alabama hospital system that quit accepting new patients after a ransomware attack said Saturday it had gotten a key to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[548,545,546,544,547],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","tag-alabama","tag-hackers","tag-hospitals","tag-pay","tag-report"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}