German prosecutors opened a homicide investigation on Friday into the case of a patient who died after a hospital in the western city of Duesseldorf was unable to admit her because its systems had been knocked out by a cyber attack.
The female patient, suffering from a life-threatening illness, had to be turned away on the night of Sept. 11 by the city’s University Clinic and died after the ambulance carrying her was diverted to Wuppertal, 30 km away.
If the investigation leads to a prosecution, it would be the first confirmed case in which a person has died as the direct consequence of a cyber attack. The hospital’s IT operations remain affected and it is still unable to admit patients brought in by ambulance, it said on Friday. “I can only urge you not to ignore or postpone such warnings but to take appropriate action immediately,” Schoenbohm said in a statement. “This incident shows once again how seriously this danger must be taken.”
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