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looking at a crime watch tonight with
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the medical industry being one of the
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largest targets of data breaches in the
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country a local animal care provider
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fell victim to hacking news watch 12's
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Rocky Walker has the story here at the
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southern Oregon Veterinary Specialty
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Center where today animals are getting
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treated like normal but on Saturday a
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hacking scam put the center into a
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lockdown life-saving machines accessing
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patient files and x-rays all Quire
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computers but when a hacker locked all
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of the files demanding payment at
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sovsc all of the screens went
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dark if you tried to open any a little
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pop-up window came up and said uh we
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have encrypted all of your files if you
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want access to them you'll need to
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contact us and pay us to give you back
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your files Administration was contacted
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as well as cyber teams acting swiftly to
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stop the hack our immediate response is
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to shut down all of our networks which
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then isolates their um access with
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protected off-site backups of the files
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they were able to regain access but in
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the meantime they had to close their
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urgent care and limit their ability in
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the Emergency Room reopening on Sunday
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but the shutdown caused extended weit
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times sending of some animals to other
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providers and the loss of 30
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devices and we're we're here for the
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community and when we we can't deliver
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on our mission to uh provide care for
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the community animals here and their
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owners it's really frustrating for us
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their protocols allowed for the hack to
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be resolved but they called the hack a
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stress test uh to the work that we've
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already done the center is spending the
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week focusing on recovery of access and
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workflow following the hack but what's
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next we'll probably do a pretty
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comprehensive debrief uh later at the
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end of the week to understand you know
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where there some learning lessons uh
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right now I think we're still just in um
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mitigation uh at this point and we'll
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we'll see what lessons come in Central
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Point Rocky Walker news watch 12
