Recently, on Thursday, the German authorities reported that they had encountered an allegedly misdirected ransomware attack that caused the breakdown of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf. Due to this ransomware attack, a woman who necessitated to get admitted urgently died after being taken to another city for treatment. 

It happened for the first time that a woman died because of the misdirected ransomware attack. The hospital asserted that the investigators have noticed that the source of the difficulty was a hacker attack on a weak place in “widely practiced commercial add-on software,” which it didn’t recognize.