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Eugene

(62,736 posts) Sun Oct 6, 2019, 04:09 PM Oct 2019

DCH Health Systems: Report: Alabama hospitals pay hackers in ransomware attack

Original report: DCH pays hackers responsible for ransomware attack (Tuscaloosa News)

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Source: Associated Press

Report: Alabama hospitals pay hackers in ransomware attack

Posted Oct 05, 2:15 PM

By The Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — An Alabama hospital system that quit accepting new patients after a ransomware attack says it has gotten a key to unlock its computer systems.

DCH Health Systems announced Saturday it is bringing systems back online.

A statement didn't say how the three-hospital system got the key to unlock its data. But The Tuscaloosa News quotes spokesman Brad Fisher as saying the hospital system paid the attackers.

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 or elsewhere.

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