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Hospital pays nearly $17G in bitcoins to hackers who disabled computer network

February 18
05:15 2016

A Los Angeles hospital paid a ransom of nearly $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers who infiltrated and disabled its computer network because paying was in the best interest of the hospital and most efficient way to solve the problem, the medical center’s chief executive said Wednesday.

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