Hackers often target businesses, shutting down technology and stealing data before demanding up to millions of dollars in extortion money.
Track record: In August, a multimillion-dollar scheme to hack and ransom Tesla made headlines when an employee blew the whistle.
Now that the threat to people is no longer theoretical, there may be a new urgency to fixing fundamental problems. German authorities say the hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in Citrix virtual private network software that was publicly known since January but which the hospital had failed to address.
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