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Are Hackers Targeting The Healthcare Industry?

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid hackers 40 bitcoins, currently worth about $17,000, following a Feb. 5 cyberattack which shut down its computers, CEO Allen Stefanek reported. Ransomware is a digital fraud scheme where hackers lock a computer system by encrypting all the files — this essentially holds the data “hostage” — and then demand a ransom…