A hospital in Romania has been targeted in a ransomware attack with the perpetrators seeking payment in cryptocurrency to decrypt its database. The hack prevents the medical institution from reporting to the country’s health insurance fund in order to receive due funding.
Botoşani Hospital Blackmailed for Bitcoin, Romanian Media Reports
The Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Botoşani, Northeastern Romania, has become the target of hackers who locked its medical records from December and demanded to be paid in cryptocurrency to restore access to the files.
After compromising the servers they encrypted the data and left a message in English, asking for a ransom of 3 BTC (over $50,000 at current exchange rates), the local news outlet Monitorul de Botoşani reported on Tuesday, quoted by the English-language portal Romania Insider.
The attack has been well-prepared, the publication noted. Neither the computer specialists from the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terr
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