One day last year, things started going haywire at Northwest Hospital and Medical Center. Key cards would no longer open the operating-room doors; computers in the intensive-care unit shut down; doctors' pagers wouldn't work. This might have been just another computer-virus attack, a common and malicious scheme that sometimes is done for little more than bragging rights. But federal officials say it was something far more insidious. . It turns out the Seattle hospital's computers — along with up to 50,000 others across the country — had been turned into an army of robots controlled by 20-year-old Christopher Maxwell of Vacaville, Calif., according to a federal indictment issued Thursday. And Maxwell, along with two juveniles, earned about $100,000 in the process, court documents state. The link for this article located at Nwsource.com is no longer available. . Explore the saga of a medical facility in Seattle that experienced a cyber infiltration, leading to major operational setbacks and prompting a series of inquiries.. hospital Cyber Attack, system Failures, malware Incident, federal Investigation. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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