A hospital in the United States – Eskenazi Health, fell victim to cybercriminals, as a result of a ransomware attack there was no access to the hospital’s key systems.

It should be remembered that the purpose of the ransomware attack is to block access to computer system to prevent reading of data stored on it. As soon as the attack was detected by the hospital, all ambulances were redirected to other locations. Hospital turned off some of its services, such as access to email and medical records, and started to verify which parts of its system were compromised. In addition, the website of the hospital was disabled.

The hospital has issued a statement informing that no breach of patients and employees data had been detected.