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A 'ransomware' attack (consisting of the hijacking of information) on the University Hospital of Dusseldorf (Germany) on Tuesday collapsed the emergency department of the center, which had to temporarily close the emergency room and, as a result, a patient seriously ill, she died while being transferred to another hospital.

The hospital's computer crash occurred due to an attack originally directed against computers at the Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, but instead affected computers at the clinic, with which it is associated,

encrypting 30 of its servers

, according to informed the office of the Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia.

On one of these servers, the hackers had left a blackmail letter addressed to the university, without specifying a specific amount.

The Dusseldorf police then contacted the criminals, informing them that it was a hospital, not the university, which had been affected by the cyberattack, and that

patients were in danger

.

The suspects then provided the police with the data necessary to decrypt the servers.

This failure in the hospital equipment

reduced the number of patients that are usually cared for in the center,

from 1,000 to 550 people, and also the number of operations, which went from between 120 and 70 to less than 15, according to sources from the clinic to the DPA agency.

As a result of the collapse in the medical center, a seriously ill patient had to be transferred to the Wuppertal hospital by ambulance.

Although it is a journey of just 25 minutes, the woman died.

This is the first recorded death due to a cyber attack.

The prosecution is investigating what happened as a negligent homicide.

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