A patient died after being redirected to another medical facility as the result of a German hospital having suffered a ransomware infection.
On September 17, the Associated Press reported that a woman who needed urgent medical attention died after being transferred from University Hospital of Düsseldorf (Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf) to a facility in another city.
The American not-for-profit news agency said that a ransomware attack at the university hospital was at least partly to blame for the woman’s death.
News of the security incident first emerged on September 10 when officials at Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf revealed that the clinic had suffered an extensive IT failure.
The hospital brought on IT experts to assist with the recovery effort.