{"id":6677,"date":"2020-09-18T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2020-09-18T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T03:30:31","slug":"ransomware-attack-at-german-hospital-leads-to-death-of-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/2020\/09\/18\/ransomware-attack-at-german-hospital-leads-to-death-of-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware attack at German hospital leads to death of patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ransomware attack has caused the death of patient.\u00a0 This is the first time that anyone has lost their life due to a cyber attack.\u00a0 \u00a0University Hospital D\u00fcsseldorf (UKD) in Germany suffered the cyber attack on September 10<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The attacker\u2019s exploited a vulnerability in a Citrix VPN, Citrix ADC CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability.\u00a0 The attack caused the IT systems in the hospital to be disrupted forcing the hospital to re-route all planned and outpatient treatments to more distant hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>A patient in a life-threatening condition was forced to be treated at a more distant hospital.\u00a0 This caused the patient to receive care an hour later which may have led to her death.\u00a0 The ransom note left on the hospital\u2019s servers were addressed to Heinrich Heine University, and not the actual hospital.\u00a0 The attackers did not intend to attack the hospital.\u00a0 Authorities contacted the attackers and explained to them that the attack was putting patients at risk.\u00a0 The attackers withdrew the ransom and provided a decryption key.<\/p>\n<p>German prosecutors still launched an investigation against the attackers on suspicion of negligent manslaughter due to the patient having to be transported to another hospital 20 miles away.\u00a0 This resulted in the doctors not being able to treat the patient for an hour resulting in her death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/ransomware-attack-at-german-hospital-leads-to-death-of-patient\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ransomware attack has caused the death of patient.\u00a0 This is the first time that anyone has lost their life due to a cyber attack.\u00a0 \u00a0University Hospital D\u00fcsseldorf (UKD) in Germany suffered the cyber attack on September 10th.\u00a0 The attacker\u2019s exploited a vulnerability in a Citrix VPN, Citrix ADC CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability.\u00a0 The attack caused the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25060,"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":[798447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-04-vulnerability-scanning","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}