This LA hospital’s computers weren’t backed up? DR fail made “ransomware” pay

A Hollywood hospital has had to pay a ransom to get its data back from hackers who encrypted everything on its computers. The medical center's CEO confessed to spending around $17,000 in Bitcoin—this after a week spent failing to restore important health data, email, and other critical stuff.

In other words, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center failed at disaster-recovery (DR). Sounds like it either didn’t have any backups, or the restore didn’t actually work.

Oopsy daisy, hashtag-fail, etcetera. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers see a lesson for all of us: Backups aren’t backups unless you can restore them!

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