医疗数据遭绑架
Cyber Thieves Hold Hospital's Data for Ransom
医疗数据遭绑架
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California paid $17,000 to regain access to their patient digital information and other data held hostage.
坐落在加利福利亚的好莱坞长老会医学中心 (Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California) 为了重新获得他们的病人资料和其他数据的接入权限而支付了17000美元 (约合11万人民币) 的赎金。
播音/撰文 拉里·格林密尔 (Larry Greenemeier)
翻译 Meatle
审校 乔虹
What do you do when hackers kidnap your data and hold it for ransom?Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California recently faced that question. The hospital’s management decided it was worth forking over $17,000 in bitcoin cyber currency to regain access to their patient digital information and other data held hostage by a malicious software program.
当黑客绑架了你的数据，并向你索要赎金的时候，你会怎么做？坐落在加利福利亚的好莱坞长老会医疗中心 (Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California) 最近就遇到了这种问题。该医院管理人员的认为，他们值得花17000美元等值的比特币来赎回被恶意软件挟持的病人数字信息和其他数据。
Ransomware, as it has come be known, has been around for years, but this hospital case is perhaps the most egregious example of its use as part of a cyber attack.
勒索软件，正如人们熟知那样，已经存在较长的一段时间，然而，该医院的这一事件可能是最为耸人听闻的网络攻击案例。
The medical center issued a statement saying that patient care was not compromised while their data was unavailable. Still, it’s unsettling to hear that a hospital is shut out of parts of its own computer systems and unable to communicate electronically.
该医院声明，在他们无法接入数据库期间，病患的护理质量并没有收到影响。尽管如此，他们无法接受被医院自身的数据系统拒之门外，并无法进行电子通信的状况。
Ransomware does its dirty work by encrypting files until a ransom payment releases the decryption key. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this case is that the hackers asked for only $17,000—not that much money to an institution that that pulls in hundreds of millions in annual revenue. But it’s almost certain that future instances of ransomware attacks will involve more exorbitant demands.
勒索软件是通过将数据进行加密来实现不法行为。当犯案者收到赎金后，受害者会收到用来解密的密钥。这次事件中最令人惊讶的地方在于，犯案者仅仅索要17000美元的赎金。相比起该医院上亿的年收入，这个数额并不是那么多。然而，我们将会看到，未来发生的网络勒索会索求更为过分的金额。
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