US hospital pays ransom to hackers

- A US hospital has converted more than 15,000 euros in ransom paid to hackers who had disabled the computer. That US media reported Thursday. According to the leadership was at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paying ransom the quickest way to get back to work.

The hackers did earlier this month to put the computers of the hospital locked by activating a program in the systems. They demanded money from the hospital in exchange for the digital key to get the computers,, open ''. The hospital had more than a week do not use computers and called a sort of state of emergency,, '' out. Patient care was not compromised, according to the hospital.

The hospital acknowledged Wednesday that it had given in to the blackmailers. Which would originally have required several million according to some media in the US. The ransom was paid in bitcoins.