Over 100 facilities have been affected with some doctors resorting to pen and paper.
Over a hundred Romanian healthcare facilities have been been affected by a ransomware attack, with some doctors forced to resort to pen and paper.
The cyber extortionists demanded 3.5 Bitcoin, worth over £130,000, to unlock vital files which they had encrypted.The attack largely unfolded overnight on Monday,from the Romanian Ministry of Health and had targeted a widely used medical information system. The organisation said that 79 other healthcare facilities were taken offline while investigations were carried out to determine if they had been affected.
As most of the targeted hospitals have recent backups of data from the affected servers, it is expected that the facilities should be able to bounce back fairly rapidly.