The Cyberattacks Plaguing America’s Hospitals
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- If you thought COVID-19 was the only dangerous virus overwhelming our hospital system, think again. Thanks to a new breed of software called “ransomware” and a woeful lack of cybersecurity, our hospitals and health care workers are in desperate need of support...STAT.
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Fun fact: The last time this happened in Britain, the part where I live (Wales) was relatively unscathed because the system was SO outdated that it the modern attack didn't work.
I work in NHS IT. That's not true. These viruses encrypt the data and work independently of what the IT systems are running. Most NHS systems were unscathed because they have very strong firewalls. Some did get attacked but it they rolled back their systems. You restore your systems to before the attack happened. All Hospitals in the UK will backup constantly because of how critical the data is. That saved them. Since then, everything has been tightened.
My hospital here in Canada was hit by this, super topic. Fortunately they managed to isolate and shut the system down before much damage was done. Still, the hospital IT was off line for about three months. This is a serious crime and real issue.
Super topic? Do you mean toxic?
This is bigger than "helping hospitals." We need a cyber security train up labor movement. As soon as hospitals are a hardened target, everything she listed becomes next.
Correct, and thank you.
How about fixing the biggest hole - Microsoft Office?
@@vladimirseven777 - it is technically a virus.
Black hat hacking is one thing, but this is beyond the pale. You know times are hard when the criminals start feeding on the sick and dying.
Criminals have always done that. Scams regularly target the sick and/or elderly. This is just a new method of the same evil.
@@michaelccozens just seems like these people have bigger fish to fry in terms of payoff
@@twisted202 hospitals have deep pockets... they demand, and get, big payoffs from them.
Criminals... exactly. When a mob has a strongman behind them (cough cough Putin cough cough) they get bold.
@@michaelccozens I hope they become victims of their own crimes. Let them be unable to receive emergency care.
The writers were so stoked to have a reason to make Vermont references that they put all of them into a blender and hit frappé.
In Vermont it's called a smoothie. Not a ...frap..frop..that other thing.
@@sarahoshea9603 Unless you're in a Starbucks... in Vermont ;)
I think it's important to talk about education when talking about cybersecurity. Because it doesn't matter how much money you pour into this, it doesn't matter if you're on the latest OS version and have anti-virus/malware software installed - if people keep clicking on links and documents they shouldn't - these attacks will continue to succeed.
I'm sorry but there HAS to be a way to make a program that can detect the difference between a word document and a virus that accesses and takes over the whole system. -Like a modified 'virtual machine' that loads it up in a 'safe mode' or something.
I know you can always make a more clever virus but banks are able to protect their data so it seems like hospitals should be able to too.
@@anthonydunn729 A word document will not be an issue unless macros are enabled for it which then allows basic VB code to run (the virus). So the hospital staff could just have that disabled. Then of course be very cautious about opening any other executable files.
Can’t they separate the medical records and computers that go out to the web?
@@jendubay3782 In theory, but it's not practical, and more expensive, and since they're already short on funds, you can see the problem here. There's no one-part solution here - you gotta have well maintained hardware, proper networking infrastructure and educated users. However, I would venture (with no evidence, so this is pure opinion) that the ROI for education is much better, at least as the first step. Many attacks rely on various phishing attacks, rather than sophisticated algorithms or brute-force attacks. So, having people know not to click on shady links, and not to use simple passwords (like their pets' names, or birthdays, or "passw0rd") will eliminate a major attack vector.
@@deeraz I honestly do not buy they’re short on funds.
Why don’t hackers just erase all medical debt in this country it would save a Lotta people a Lotta anguish
Because most "hackers" are actually cyber criminals not cyber heroes. The deep web isn't a social justice haven to fight against the system it's a den of horrifying crimes.
Money goes where money comes. The financial sector (where most medical debt goes) is one of the, if not the most cyber-secure part of society, simply because they have the resources and incentives to make it that way. Otherwise, why not hack a bank, add a few zeros to your account, and skip the ransom entirely? The reason hospitals are targeted is because they have a lot of money, and are far more incentivized to put that money elsewhere (like patient care and malpractice insurance). You could pass a law leveeing large fines against any hospital that has data breaches to make the incentive for security greater, but the cost would get passed on to consumers, making healthcare that much more expensive than it already is.
Like what we assumed(hoped)Anonymous was gonna be?
Because they aren't Good People.
I was gonna say this too. Wishful thinking....
If you go to your doctor's office and their computer is running Windows 7 or earlier, Get out of there!
I think you mean Windows.. Not Windows 7. IFIFY. Plus most hospital hardware (MRI/CAT scan/X-Ray/monitors) are mostly all running Windows underneath. They cannot be upgraded without buying a new X-Ray machine for example as the hardware and software are validated for medical use under law together. Then there's the driver issue. The drivers are written by the hardware manufacture.. It's like how when Windows Vista came out all sorts of functional hardware was showing up at thrift shops for nothing as the new OS couldn't use the old drivers. The way our corporate world works, you pretty much have to junk everything and get new ones, but bugs will always be found in the hardware/firmware/software, and you cannot simply update the soft parts without a validation process happening and our laws do not force manufactures to provide support past a certain point and the newer machine *can* be smaller, faster, cheaper do this when the machines get old. This is why your phone doesn't get updates past a certain point and pretty much everyone is using devices known to be open to attack. BTW- All Intel CPU's in use (made since 2007) have hardware design flaws which CANNOT be completely fixed through firmware/software. You can even attack a system by exploiting design flaws in RAM chips used inside computers. - Have a good nights sleep now..
Like everything it's because management haven't invested enough into IT and they use outdated OS with exploits, never update or install security patches.
Cyber security is part of running any modern business.
This is beyond black hat, this is despicable, it is outright villainy. Victimizing the sick? You have no soul and no shame, you should be put down.
Yeah! We should put down the insurance company... oh you didn’t mean them?
National govt war agencies and hackers in disadvantaged countries don't care about the USA people, their own interests make your welfare fails actually cheering.
@@Pfpfpfpfpf2020 you don’t think they victimize the sick? Just remember *heart transplants* are an *elective* surgery.
@@jendubay3782 I'm capable of disliking two things at once.
Do you really think that when trying to destroy USA russian hackers attacking hospitals is despicable?
They've been really bad at my work lately. One I got today said it was from our IT, and that because of all the attacks they wanted you to test your password strength. But I'm not dumb, and I reported it.
Since we can’t be able to fight the hackers, we should extensively train staff to stop opening email attachments and investing in antivirus program
My work actually does this. They purposely send us phishing emails & if we click on them we get put on a report & have to do extra training. Excessive fails can result in writeups up to firing. You'd think such critical facilities as hospitals would put equal effort into training their staff.
@@laurensegars4504 xo happy to hear something good & proactive - thanks!! 😊
@@laurensegars4504 firing? That’s just wrong
@@LaQuesaDeMI I work in insurance so we deal with medical records & financial information. It would be insanely bad if hackers got inside our systems, so I can see the rationale behind it. It does take several offenses before you get to firing though, and a lot of the phishing emails are pretty obvious if you know what to look for, so really anyone who falls for them enough times to be fired for it probably deserves it imo.
...that was everything we know about Vermont, in one punchline, lol🤣
Keeping a daily offline backup ensures you don't have to worry about evil a$$holes stealing your stuff. Key is "offline". The ransomware code profligates into backups that are online.
Oh I've had customers who have booted up the backup system that was offline and found it was infected too. The trick to understand is that often they have been in your system for months.
Waiting for Netflix to make a
Miniseries about this.
Then the people will be
more aware .
Nobody knew what identity theft
was until Sandra Bullock did
the 🎥, "THE NET".
Then ppl will know Vermont is a state and they'll stop asking me what part of New York it's in!
The Netflix series will make the hackers the good guys.
Well thankfully many of us knew about that before the net lol. I think you're right though majority of people finally learn about things once a documentary or movie is made.
@@blaze556922 A Netflix series is
just a Little More Digestible than
a PBS documentary.
They put more flavour in it.
As someone who is quite familiar with IT; yeah, it often really is that easy. Most of our stuff is so horribly insecure. The sad thing is that... that video game where you play as a hacker who can hack into pretty much everything? Sadly, there is a lot more truth to that then most are willing to admit.
"...People click on that, they always click on that..." LOL So true!
But there's enough money to charge patients tons of money for procedures.
@@not-a-boar3148 I see we had the same insurer.
@@not-a-boar3148 Ironically, I wanted insurance to pay for my pain prescription, but the insurance per month was almost $1400, same as my medication, so i have neither. They were happy to offer opiates instead. SMH.
@@not-a-boar3148 So true!
@@not-a-boar3148 I'm still hoping that eventually I'll get the original medication. They have me on morphine, and it helps keep the pain manageable most days. I agree that medical marijuana might make a difference.
Right before my doctor’s office closed permanently this year they quietly declined to renew my heart meds and thyroid medications that the pharmacy was sending them for approval as they were out of refills, something I never received any notification on until it was too late and exactly one year past my last visit and my health insurance was expired. The auto-refill would show as pending and then the queue would just clear out, no errors no issues. It’d resubmit and take about two weeks and then just be removed so I thought I it was an issue in the app. Not until I was actually on my last week of medication was I given a rejection that said they wouldn’t renew it without an office visit and of course by this time we were in a lockdown and then 6 weeks later they closed that office. I got a letter saying I could find a new GP with them as soon as I paid the $350 bill from my last _routine_ appointment a year prior where I paid a $60 copay, a $80 coinsurance, but they did full labs so I was billed bc my insurance only covered like $12 of the lab fees. My insurance premiums were ~$400 ish bucks every 2 weeks. This ended up getting me 6 months of necessary daily maintenance medication that I’ve now been without since last March. I’m 36 and I have chest pain daily and I can’t lift the blankets to make my bed in the morning.
Telling me it launches a missile attack on Clippy makes me *more* likely to do it.
Yes. There is that slight bit of positivity.
@@NoirpoolSea true ‘dat. Even the worst of historical atrocities have inadvertently provided benefits to the evolution of humanity: just as the most optimistic innovations have their ideals inevitably corrupted to produce catastrophic consequences.
There’s probably even one person who ever said : “thanks clippy! I’m glad they decided to include you because you’re not f****ing annoying at all!”
The VT jokes are gems.
Whoa, there are Presbyterians in Movie Town?? I thought they were all Scientologists.
can confirm - when I was in the hospital last year (just slightly prior to covid) I was kind of shocked - one of my therapists was still using XP. either that, or it was an XP machine that kept the XP "look" but was actually upgraded to Vista. either way uh.... yeah. given how much healthcare costs in this country, it's always amazing how old and busted things look in alot of hospital that aren't on TV.
How evil u gotta be?! It’s like bad people find new ways of making me lose my hope in humanity😔
I love this outfit, that’s a rad suit
Regular money also exists only in the mind if you think about it. Cash is physically just some paper and metal. Electronic payments are done entirely in cyberspace.
Yes and no. All currency is symbolic, but fiat money is backed by faith in the issuing government's ability to pay it back, which relies on the taxation power of said government. Bitcoin has no such backing.
Our dollars aren't backed by the gold it used to stand for. It's all just paper standing in for the wasted hrs of our lives.
@@michaelccozens Why is faith in Bitcoin less valid than faith in fiat? It's been a long time since fiat was backed by gold. It's all in centralized hands, which if you think about it is terrifying.
So it's the same kind of faith for fiat and Bitcoin, you cannot have it both ways. Either faith is not enough to validate a currency in which case fiat is as invalid as Bitcoin, or it is and Bitcoin is a valid currency.
All that to say, if you don't like bitcoin for your own personal reasons ( understanding, holdings elsewhere, bad experience etc ), that's 100% fair, but please don't spread misinformation around for your personal views.
Wow, hackers aren't good people. If this was the 90s I'd be shocked
This was literally my undergrad final project in 2018.
Wanna look more into this subject look up Wanna Cry Ransomware NHS.
"it also launches a missile attack against Clippy."
So.. not all bad, then.
I know, right? I thought Sam was trying to make us NOT want to click the button.
📎👋 “Hi! It looks like you were trying to make a sandwich. I’ve deleted all your files.”
The NHS in Britain had the same attack a few years ago.
Same here in Europe! France and Great Britain are getting hit hard.
Unconscienable
How can anyone stoop so low...
thank you sam . your great .
One day I really need to open up one of Sam's videos in Incognito Mode, not signed into YT, etc. and then see how long it takes the auto play to take me into the types of stuff that radicalizes people. I feel like it is sadly even less time than we would all assume.
Maybe we should build a world where people don't need money so badly
I don't disagree, but I'm not sure the hackers doing this are doing it out of desperation. Some people simply do not care how much harm they inflict on others.
@@michaelccozens you've met some like that?
6:27 Sam: "Because no one should have to decipher a doctor's handwriting."
Agreed! That's the job of the _Medical Transcription industry._ Yup, we created a whole industry in India for doing just that!
Wanna know how it works? In the evening, US hospitals email to India scans of whatever their doctors wrote during the day. Over the night, specially trained medical transcribers in India (where it is daytime-apologies, flat earthers) interpret the scribbles, type it into electronic documents, and email it back to the US before morning. _It's true, I swear!_
The thing is, the resources needed were available years ago - all businesses throughout the world were told that Windows XP would no longer be supported beyond 2015, we all attend classes from the age of 8 onwards on cyber security - strong passwords, don't click on dodgy links, don't open emails you don't know the origin of, don't put out too much personal info and check whether the email sent to you would actually be sent (e.g. you wouldn't receive bank statements by email) and encryption software is basic and widely available - keeping such information separate and inaccessible from the internet is possible. The companies (hospitals) themselves must shoulder some of the blame - even if these despicable scumbag hackers do this stuff
Uh, who takes cyber security classes at age 8? You know that more than half the population was 8 at a time when no one had even heard of cyber security, right?
Another angle to be dealt with are medical devices. Sam's statements weren't wrong about aging software components in medical devices. Many of them are running obsolete operating systems and software, making them ripe for compromise. This is partly about the fault of hospital systems and their budgets to update equipment, but it is also shouldered on the FDA and the medical device makers as well. In the interests of "safety", medical device makers will prioritize the medical efficacy of a device through a lazy approach of getting their device approved by the FDA and then never touching it again, calling any updates *unsupported*. The FDA needs to streamline their approval processes while maintaining a posture of safety, and medical device makers need to be responsible for the fact that a non-operational machine due to compromise is of no use to patients or clinicians.
@@tifforo1 That's a little over-generalized, don't you think? And yes, we should be teaching our children the basics of cybersecurity. Just the other day, I had a conversation with my 7-year-old about not sharing her passwords with other people, outside of myself and my wife. They can handle the basics like not sharing sensitive information and not opening random things. You just have to take the time to relate it to them.
Thank you for everything you do🥰
There is no cyber security for corporations. It costs money so therefore not needed.
Compartmentalize. Medical records should not be on a machine that gets emails.
Wow Sherlock!
Ideally computers should not be connected at all, but...
@@DarkGob There are benefits to an internal network; but you need 2 - (a) for sensitive data, and (b) for you to email. The radiologist doesn't need to watch cat videos while you're being scanned.
Doctor- I removed the wrong kidney because I couldn’t understand my own handwriting. Me- seems legit.
Wait, people in the US pay through the nose for medical care but hospitals can't afford to update Windows? What are the patients paying for!?
Perhaps the NSA could get into the business of defending America instead of "defending forward" by keeping exploits like ETERNALBLUE from being fixed.
IT professional here: Don't give ten year old computers a connection to the internet. Backup the files off site so malware can't find it. Train your staff to understand they are not accounts, do not run the loading docks, and no, a Nigerian Prices does not want to give them a million dollars. Have clean PCs on standby that can access the backup copy while IT cleans up your mess. And remember that scrubbing a few hundred computers takes time, so train to use pen and paper for when one of your colleagues does something they shouldn't, and you have to do it for real.
Back up info and polygraph the FCC. Somebody determines their priorities? I suspect it was the same crowd or mindset that determined on time mail was an option and for profit schools were not obligated to educate.
I'm an old IT guy, far from the sharpest guy in the drawer, but here it is: New 10GE NetBSD dual firewalls bet. departments, every enduser machine gets upgraded to 32GB of RAM, 300GB SSD. Nothing less than an Intel i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 w. Virtualization technology. Run a hardened/custom BSD or Linux host OS, then a Windows VM past that. Email and any web browsers run in their own VMs. Wireless: Give the contract to a consortium of companies, let them come up with a highly segmented but fast wireless standard for medical gear (Qualcomm, Intel, Ubiquiti, Sophos, Eero, RedHat). Otherwise, wait years and let billions of dollars in lost productivity, healthcare costs, and maybe dead people pile up. The United States will die a death of a million little cuts.
Hmm, I'm beginning to see why they put you in the drawer 🤣
I'm sorry, the hospital does not have the money to update from Windows XP??? Have you seen a US hospital bill? That's just BS.
If the Hospitals are for profit, why should we pay for upgrading their cycber security and computer software/ hardware? Insurance companies need to also help out with these expenses as well, otherwise they will not get paid - win win
Love your show!
Feel safe. This is a travesty
4:48 A Windows version not updated since 2014? That's XP. They're really still using Windows XP.
Yeah, primary markets for medical devices are getting stuff like that, and secondary markets, like independent doctors, are getting even older stuff, as they can't afford to buy it new.
The Clippy jokes will never die
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And they always click on that... so true. lol
The worst part is: most hospitals are privately run, billions in costs overall. Setting up a proper IT infrastructure wouldn't cost that much compared to these ransoms. At the very least, they should isolate outdated systems (like imaging devices) and have the other have automatic backups. Given the cost people pay for healthcare in US, it should be a no-brainer.
But yes, national cybersecurity should be beefed up with white hat hackers possible pre-emptively attacking hacker groups strongholds in Russia, China, Iran, etc. Honestly, it should be part of the military budget since most attacks are state-sponsored.
Missile strike on Clippy? Maybe they're not ALL bad.
We to hire hacker assassins'- find 'em smoke 'em - Maybe even a bounty system - you know, like free enterprise.
No one is stealing my health care information cause I live in a country that doesn't have health car :D
Full frontal is locking comment threads...see ya! Nice knowing you...adults can have a conversation without you needing to get involved. Hasta.
WindowsXP is the OS for many costly medical machines, and consequently it is the only "unsupported" Windows OS that still gets patches and anti-viral updates released for it, because those of us still using Windows XP could be vectors for the spread of viruses that could take critical equipment down. Fortunately XP remains one of the least buggy and most stable OS that Windows ever released, and for running vintage apps, we are not interested in abandoning it anytime soon.
Why are these not air-gapped?
Samantha: "...doing it in the on call room."
*cut to Alex and Izzy*
GA nerds like me: "yeah, like twelve years ago..."
Hospitals in my town still use win95 no hope for this.
I go to UVM. Why am I finding out the hospital got hacked from Sam Bee
Poor Clippy
Imagine being the person in finance that opens the fake invoice that shuts down the hospital. You already hate your job, might be the last kick in the a** to quit.
You never know. I work in IT for a hospital and one of my coworkers made the mistake of clicking a link in a fake phishing email. We send out fake tests every year and this last one was actually pretty good, but I did catch it myself. Usually the phishing emails the staff get are actually pretty horrible and easy to spot, thankfully. But given that the one year, a fake free turkey offer got like half the staff, we're probably doomed!
If it wasn't that so many innocent people would be harmed, I'd say f the hospitals. Most of them over charge and are very fast to sue people who can't afford their bill.
"I'm in..."
From an old nurse who had to resort to tricks like turning the chat upside down to read doctor's handwriting in the 1970's, yes, this is scary. How dependent we are on computers is scary, too. So is how much power is being used by cyber currencies. *Sigh"* One more thing to worry about in a pandemic.
Unfortunately that comment about power used by cryptocurrencies isn't really true. Sure they use power, but they don't run similar calculations on Visa, think of every credit card terminal, all the metal being used for the chips, the plastic for every card, the old terminals thrown away for updates. It's a very long discussion, but the gist of it is that it's primarily a talking point started by banks while they work on their own crypto currencies, and those against cryptocurrency because of vested interest elsewhere.
I do agree we're too dependent on systems that we're not investing in. It's like needing a can to walk but no bothering to make sure it's strong. The only difference is when the hospitals systems fail, they don't suffer nearly as much as their patients do.
rather than the government saying for the cyber security of hospitals why don't they just incentivise companies to give the hospitals the security they need through tax cuts and other means.
The government already lets how many companies get away with paying no tax just cos they lobbied some politicians with a couple hundred grand.
But how bad can a German knock off get? 🤔
Let's go back to the old system.
Solid immutable backups are a first step, but this requires a combination of policy, enforcement and technology to address these kinds of attacks. Of course, that requires $$$, so it’ll never happen
Side butts were the reason for the bustle craze.
Yes, but if they spent more on cybersecurity, how would they pay their CEOs and executives MILLIONS OF DOLLARS???Where would those executives find the money to buy their cases of ivory backscratchers??? C'mon people! Think!
NOT 'Clippy'!!! 😢 ~ There are pros and cons when it comes to that switch from a paper-based to a digital world, in terms of record-keeping. Time has made the decision for us all; personally, the best I know how to do (re: this subject, pertaining to healthcare) is to maintain my own set of physical, paper records filed the old-fashioned way.
(Try to learn your rights beforehand and have an advocate or witness if you have to enter a hospital for any reason anyway. Hospital errors happen all the time, regardless of any actual confusion over patient information.)
Some serious prison time rather than a slap on the wrist these cyber criminals usually get would be a good deterrent. Also, a little international cooperation from countries where these attacks originate would be helpful. Is it possible to truly hack proof a system? I doubt it.
All white collar crime is a slap. They're hurting and robbing more than a guy in a ski mask at the bodega and yet they'll do 200% less jail time. Figure that out.
I get people want to “see“ their anchors, if that’s the case, less hair, more legs
As one of my parents is in HIGH levels of IT Security (IBM AS400 Server Systems). Most of them are behind in security by at least 10 years or more. The only reason they upgrade is if its mandatory by law. So unless you start voting for the people in congress who value security this will likely not change until they are "hacked".
Maybe if these Hospitals invest in IT, by hiring more onsite IT staff, paying them a competitive wage, and giving them a budget significant enough to upgrade the system, this wouldn't happen.
disgusting that they would try this but I don't understand who it would work on. No one should care if their private information from a hospital gets out. They cannot hurt you financially.
You know, it’s amazing to me how the healthcare industry demands it’s blood sacrifice in costs to the patient yet no one ever seems to be able to afford anything when it’s over. Where’s all this money going? I’d say it ends up precisely in the pockets of the administrators and boards out here whining about the costs of a properly secured network. We should be doing routine pen testing as part of code inspections and then fine hospitals that fail bc they allow this kind of bs to happen thru negligence, bc you know everyone in the top paid positions of these places aren’t struggling to find ways to afford upgrading their Teslas the way they seem to struggle with protecting at the bare minimum data they are _legally obliged_ to protect. Failing to lift a finger to be in compliance with a law bc “I can’t afford to do what’s required of me” seems to only work when it’s rich people refusing to protect the people they profit from but when I do it it’s all _“those were for the guests!”_ and _“how’d you get back here?!”_
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Wir alle wünschen uns das.
shes so funny i love her!!!
Maybe a small percentage of medical bill could go to computer security. They charge enough. Glad I'm in UK and all medical treatment is free. Its a right, not a privilege.
Aaargh, it infuriates me that this is what happens when you go cheep on the IT department. There are solutions for most of these things. Hacks don’t just happen, it’s a cat and mouse!
Hey Hospitals are private businesses in America. They can afford to skip on cybersecurity.
I believe one of those cyber-attacks
led to the wrong medication somehow.
Nothing I do makes this muscle relax.
It's been four hours. I'm calling in now!
I’ve missed shep!
She's so cool!
Find the hackers and maybe not be able to treat their cancer as punishment
It's so nice to finally hear an important story from one of these late night comedy shows that isn't about "how much we hate trump and republicans" or "how COVID changed everything"
You’re welcome
Ya think the hacker was trying to pay his health care bill????
Dr doing it in side rooms isn’t hot, it’s infuriating. Go the the ER GRAB A PATIENT and start doing medicine so people don’t die in the waiting room
The question is why hospitals keep people's private history
Just every time I go to hospitals I pay doctors to know what is my problem so keeping my private information is nonsense
Just pull the drive out of the system, grab a Linux system, use Lynux based recovery software and WINE (no, not THAT wine), and there are all your files. Run Malwarebytes on the bad drive, then recover the files. Total cost? The cost of an external hard drive for the recovered files to be saved to. Linux is free and opensource. Next time, use Malwarebytes on your system. Have a good day!
Okay, but like.
From what little I know about American health care, it's expensive enough. You don't nees to do this, lol
Have you ever tried idk , like ZEN
This is probably naive of me, but maybe we as a society need to reconsider connecting critical infrastructure to the internet. It would be a lot less convenient in some ways, but it seems better than this.
Oh c'mon, everyone knows hackers just take a bunch of E and then shout at the imagined FBI bugs in the walls during their down time
Can't u just tell that Society in the US is not working and falling? The American dream is debt and depression.