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schema:articleBody	German prosecutors said Friday they were launching an investigation into involuntary manslaughter after a patient died in the aftermath of a hacking attack on a hospital. If charges are brought, it would be a rare case of hacking with fatal consequences. Duesseldorf University Hospital's IT systems were knocked offline in the attack last Thursday, meaning it became disconnected from the ambulance network. A critically ill woman was therefore admitted to a hospital further away in Wuppertal and died shortly afterwards, the Duesseldorf hospital revealed this week. Because of the longer distance that the ambulance had to travel, there was an hour's delay before medical staff were only able to treat her. Prosecutors in Cologne have taken over the investigation and are now probing unknown suspects on suspicion of manslaughter, prosecutor Christoph Hebbecker said Friday. "We are now investigating over involuntary manslaughter, computer sabotage and attempted blackmail," he told AFP. He added that investigations are in particular looking into "whether there is a criminal connection between the hacking and the death of this person". The hackers exploited a "weakness in an application" to encrypt several servers, the hospital said Thursday, but there was no evidence that "data had been irretrievably destroyed". Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, science and culture minister for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said Thursday there was evidence to suggest the attack had been aimed at Duesseldorf's Heinrich Heine University (HHU). Pfeiffer-Poensgen said a threatening letter had been found on a HHU server. According to the hospital, however, there was no concrete ransom demand. Access to the data encrypted during the attack has now been restored and systems are being gradually brought back into operation. Germany has seen several hacker attacks on research and higher education institutions in recent months, including the University of Giessen, the University of Cologne and the Ruhr University Bochum. bur-fec/hmn/pvh
schema:headline	Manslaughter probe as patient dies after German hospital hacking attack
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schema:datePublished	2020-09-18 (xsd:date)
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