Three hospitals in Alabama and seven in Australia have been hit with paralyzing ransomware attacks that are affecting their ability to take new patients. All three hospitals that make up the DCH Health System in Alabama were closed to new patients on October 1, 2019, as officials were coping with the attack. All but critical patients were turned away.
At the same time, seven hospitals in Australia were forced to either shut down systems or go into manual operation mode, following a ransomware attache of their information systems.
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