Medical personnel treat Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit of the University hospital of Aachen, western Germany. Often, cybercriminals encrypt data from hospitals and other facilities and then demand a form of ransom for the release of the data. — AFP
Hackers are increasingly penetrating the computer networks of hospitals and other vitally important organisations in Germany, according to a newspaper report.
The federal government registered 43 successful attacks on health-care providers by early November, the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported in a text seen in advance by dpa.
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