Few jokes knocking around here but has anybody stood back and looked at the bigger picture. There’s patients lives at stake here. Apointments and procedures are going to be missed. Waiting list will lengthen. People will die.
If these guys are caught, which I suppose is unlikely, the death penalty wouldn’t go amiss.
All depends on your backups.
Even if you pay you can’t bring the systems backup until you done a full network audit and ensure you’ve all the vulnerabilities fixed.
If you have the backups available you’d be aswell starting from scratch. The data they have doesn’t sound overly important and I think there would be a level of understanding from the public if it was leaked that wouldn’t be there for a corporation.