Cybersecurity
Hackers Offer Decrypt Key to Irish Health Service With a Catch
- Group still threatening to release patient data unless paid
- Ransomware attack has paralyzed hospitals and disrupted care
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A day after threatening to publicly release patient data, the hackers who targeted Ireland’s health service offered a decryption key that they said could be used to unlock computers infected with ransomware.
While seeming to offer an olive branch -- sharing a link to download the decryption key -- the group reiterated its threats to disclose patient data unless Irish authorities paid the $20 million ransom demand.