Good news? They're not paying the ransom
A French hospital has suffered a ransomware attack that reportedly caused the lockdown of 6,000 computers.
Rouen's Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) reverted to pen and paper instead of computerised record-keeping during last week's attack, according to Le Monde.
The attack, which took place on Friday November 15 at around 1900 local time, according to a hospital statement (en Francais) "made access to most business applications inaccessible, but also infected some of the workstations."
"Many services operated in degraded mode and hospital staff were confronted with disruptions, particularly in regards to computerised prescriptions, reports or admissions management, which instead had to be operated in a degraded state, [or had to be transmitted via] telephone ..
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