We’ve heard of ransomware infections infecting hospitals and clinics.\u00a0 We’ve also heard that at times patients have been sent away because some of the more sophisticated procedures could not be done.\u00a0 Now, a medical clinic in northeastern Ohio has been completely shut down due to a ransomware attack<\/a>.\u00a0 Pulmonary Physicians is now on its fifth day without critical files, making it impossible to see patients.\u00a0 The facility was keeping all of their files stored on servers in the cloud through Allscripts.\u00a0 Last week, Allscripts was hit with a ransomware attack.\u00a0 It was this attack that led to the encryption of Pulmonary Physicians’ data.<\/p>\n At this time, it remains unknown how long it will take to unlock the files.\u00a0 Understandably, all impacted facilities want this resolved as soon as possible.\u00a0 However, to the only way to get business operational again, after a ransomware infection is to restore using backup files.\u00a0 This can be incredibly time consuming.\u00a0 So, time consuming in fact, a hospital in Indiana recently paid the $55,000 ransom demand, even when they had backup files because it was more cost effective to pay the demands and gain almost immediate access to their files again.\u00a0 Although, PC Matic does not encourage ransomware victims pay the ransom demands.\u00a0 By doing so, a target goes on the facility for future ransomware attacks.\u00a0 There is also no guarantee that paying the ransom demands will unlock the files.<\/p>\n To review the ransomware attacks that have taken place throughout the U.S. PC Matic has created an interactive map.\u00a0 Users can click on any plotted area and find out what facility was infected, and if they paid the ransom demands.<\/p>\n \n