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'Lock it down and piss people off': How quick thinking stopped a ransomware attack from crippling a Florida hospital
CNN
It was approaching midnight on Sunday and the head of IT at a Florida hospital had a problem.
The emergency room of Jackson Hospital, a 100-bed facility on Florida's panhandle, called to report that it couldn't connect to the charting system that doctors use to look up patients' medical histories. Jamie Hussey, Jackson Hospital's IT director, soon realized that the charting software, which was maintained by an outside vendor, was infected with ransomware and that he didn't have much time to keep the computer virus from spreading.
The hospital shut down its computer systems on his advice.
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