"Fatality After Hospital Hacked"

A cyberattack on a hospital led to the death of a woman in need of urgent medical treatment. Attackers caused IT systems at the Düsseldorf University Clinic (DUC) to crash, resulting in a woman seeking medical care at the hospital having to be transported to another hospital. The 20-mile travel to a hospital in another city delayed her treatment by an hour. In addition, operations at DUC were postponed, and other emergency patients had to be redirected to alternative healthcare providers following the attack.  An investigation of the cyberattack experienced by DUC revealed that threat actors exploited a vulnerability contained by widely-used commercial add-on software. This article continues to discuss how a cyberattack on DUC impacted patient care as well as the investigation of this incident. 

Infosecurity Magazine reports "Fatality After Hospital Hacked"