The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto says most of its priority systems are back after a ransomware attack affected its operations.
Dr. Ronald Cohn, president and CEO of SickKids, says in a release Thursday that about 80 percent of the hospital’s priority systems have been restored.
He says the cyberattack that began on Dec. 18 was dealt with relatively quickly with minimal disruptions to patients and families.
On Saturday, LockBit, a ransomware group the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has called one of the world’s most active and destructive, issued a brief apology and offered SickKids a free decryptor to unlock its data….