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CYBERCRIME: Ransomware and rural hospitals. Annie Fixler, FDD

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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CYBERCRIME: Ransomware and rural hospitals. Annie Fixler, FDD

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0:00.0

This is a

0:05.0

CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. Hacking. It is a game for young people

0:12.0

but for hospitals and health care.

0:15.0

I learned in June of this year, it is dangerous, perilous, threatening, life-ca causing business.

0:23.2

Several London hospitals under significant strain more than a week after a cyber attack crippled

0:27.6

services.

0:28.8

This is the New York Times mid-June this year.

0:31.6

They have asked medical students to volunteer to help minimize

0:34.2

disruption as thousands of blood samples have had to be discarded in

0:38.1

hundreds of operations postponed. The ransomware attack goes on the Times

0:42.4

reporting on London.

0:44.0

On Synovis, a private firm that analyzes blood tests,

0:48.0

has crippled services at two major National Health Service Hospital Trust,

0:52.0

Gies and St Thomas's in King's College, which described

0:55.3

the situation as critical.

0:57.3

In other words, an attack on one piece of the system quickly becomes an attack on the whole system and everything backs up.

1:04.6

But that's the National Health System of London.

1:08.0

That doesn't come to America.

1:09.4

We have a private health care here, except I welcome Annie Fixler, the director of the Center on

1:15.2

Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of

1:18.7

democracies and she's writing in the Washington Times with her colleague Vincent Wang an intern and we're looking at hacking in American hospitals and what is to be done.

1:30.0

And he rather than examine the ruins and that's what happened to the NHS in London at some point in June.

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