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WanaCry Ransomware Attack' ☠️

- How it affected US hospitals?

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Answered by Akashofficial
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On Friday the ransomware spread like wildfire – starting in Europe – and infected over 200,000 computers, including large portions of England’s National Health Service causing hospitals and doctor’s offices to shut down non-emergency services.

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Answered by Anonymous
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Hi there !!

Hospitals are the are the main target  as they provide  rely on up-to-date information from patient records.
 Without the access to the patient's drug histories,and other information,
the care that must be given to the patient gets halted .

This makes the hospitals  to pay a ransom rather than risk , which can cause deaths.


The hospitals stopped all network operations so as to  prevent the malware from spreading.
Hence , as a result ,  health-care professionals could not access email or could not  schedule patient visits or even their operations.
 
Therefore , the hospitals reverted to paper records for the purpose of  scheduling.


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