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	"plain_text": "US hospitals turn away patients as ransomware strikes\r\nBy BBC News\r\nPublished: 2019-10-02 · Archived: 2026-04-05 17:21:42 UTC\r\nThis could affect efforts to contact patients and schedule appointments, the Government of Victoria said: \"Where\r\npractical, hospitals are reverting to manual systems to maintain their services.\"\r\nTechnology explained: what is ransomware?\r\nIn cases where patient histories, charts, images and other information has been made unavailable, it may be\r\nnecessary to reschedule some appointments, the authority added.\r\nDaniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria, told local media it could take \"weeks\" before the problems were fixed.\r\nThe Victorian Government Cyber Incident Response Service has dealt with more than 600 cyber-attacks since July\r\n2018.\r\n\"Unfortunately the groups breaking into individual computers at organisations are becoming rapidly better at\r\nobtaining access across networks, and then causing chaos with a goal to being paid,\" said UK-based cyber-security expert Kevin Beaumont.\r\n\"This problem isn't going to go away,\" he added.\r\nHe said organisations needed to review their security procedures and ensure that backups were in place - and also\r\nthat such backups had been recently tested - so that data and systems could be restored in the event of a\r\nransomware infection.\r\nSource: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49905226\r\nhttps://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49905226\r\nPage 1 of 1",
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