{"id":74,"date":"2021-10-08T17:40:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/?p=74"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:47:29","slug":"ransomware-finally-claims-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/2021\/10\/08\/ransomware-finally-claims-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Finally Claims a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article: A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death<br \/>\nAuthor: Kevin Poulsen, Robert McMillan and Melanie Evans<br \/>\nPublished: September 30, 2021<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ransomware-hackers-hospital-first-alleged-death-11633008116\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was incredibly upsetting. Up until now ransomware making victims of hospitals has always been speculated as a danger to human life. Now, we have an actual victim that has died. An unborn child&#8217;s condition was not tracked appropriately which resulted in permanent brain damage and the eventual death of the baby. Parents are suing the hospital and the physician and are still in litigation. As it happens the hospital was undergoing an aggressive ransomware attack at the time on the incident and did not inform the patients or the staff of what was occurring in the moment. The hospital was actively trying to mitigate the incident. Not an unusual occurrence as the response is immediate to these kinds of attacks. The hospital did not pay the ransom, which is to be noted. Eventually the institution was able to gain access to their patient files and recover. However, the damage had been done and the patient was irrevocably impacted. If this case is won, this will be the FIRST proven case of ransomware causing a death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article: A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death Author: Kevin Poulsen, Robert McMillan and Melanie Evans Published: September 30, 2021 Source: The Wall Street Journal This article was incredibly upsetting. Up until now ransomware making victims of hospitals has always been speculated as a danger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[449],"tags":[449],"class_list":{"0":"post-74","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-6","7":"tag-week-6","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}