https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ucsf-pays-114-million-decrypt-files-after-ransomware-attack
By Mike Miliard
Healthcare IT News
June 29, 2020
UCSF on Friday announced that it had "made the difficult decision" to pay
a $1.14 million ransom and unlock the important data that had been
encrypted in a ransomware attack earlier this month.
WHY IT MATTERS
On June 3, IT staff at UCSF School of Medicine detected a security
incident that had occurred two days earlier, said school officials in a
statement.
"We quarantined several IT systems within the School of Medicine as a
safety measure, and we successfully isolated the incident from the core
UCSF network. Importantly, this incident did not affect our patient care
delivery operations, overall campus network, or COVID-19 work," officials
noted.
Even as that attack was stopped, however, the perpetrators launched a
malware program that encrypted some servers. UCSF officials note that IT
and security staff have been working with an outside consultant and hope
to restore access to the servers and shore up its defenses in general.
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