Cyber attackers seize, encrypt and ransom medical centre's patient database | Libertés Numériques | Scoop.it
Cyber attackers have breached an Australian medical centre's patient database, encrypted it, and are demanding $4,000 AUD to release thousands of patient records - a sum the medical centre is trying hard not to pay.

The records were collected over seven years and stored on a server at the Miami Family Medical Centre in Queensland.

Law enforcement say that the attack originated in Russia or somewhere in Eastern Europe, but origins of such attacks are notoriously difficult to pinpoint.