![]() ![]() The hospital did not opt to pay the $44,000 ransom and resorted, like they did on Grey's Anatomy, to pen and paper over the time during which they couldn't use their systems.Īt Grey Sloan, things went from bad to worse - Meredith couldn't get blood for a patient and has an intern give his blood directly into the patient's open body Alex doesn't know what medicine to give a dying boy and in the hubbub, Jo's abusive husband was allowed to sneak into the hospital. and the largest American hospital hacked was a 550-bed facility in Buffalo." Hackers held the trauma unit of the Erie County Medical Center hostage for six whole weeks. According to CBS This Morning, " the medical industry is the new number one target for hackers. If that doesn't scare you enough, it should, since this story is basically ripped from the headlines. They knew someone had the dollars.īailey wants Jackson to give the hackers the money, and the FBI disagrees - if Grey Sloan ponies up, they could do it again to another hospital. But do you know who does? Jackson Avery! Which is probably why the hospital was hacked in the first place. Webber has five large, but he does not have $20 million. Webber, who doesn't know what a bitcoin is, is all, I'll give them $5,000 now, and the IT guy is much more like, um, dude, that's like $20 million. And then the ransom note comes - an anonymous hacker group wants approximately 5,000 bitcoin and they'll give the hospital its network back. ![]() And neither did the people at Grey Sloan - they use their computer network for everything, from labs to blood work to charts to monitors, and things are just swimmingly along one day, hunky dory, when all of the monitors in the hospital stop working. Who's hacking the Grey's Anatomy hospital? This fall finale was too real, y'all.įor all the talk of and hacking emails and deleting hard drives and alleged Russian interference in American issues, I don't think that we take the threat of hacking seriously enough. ![]() except when a hacker breaks into your network and takes the whole thing over. Having everything computerized seems like a good idea - it makes life easier, and in the case of a hospital like Grey Sloan, it makes records easy to find and labs easy to read. ![]()
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