Alabama health system pays hackers responsible for ransomware attack as FBI warns more to come

Alabama-based DCH Health System made a payment to hackers behind a ransomware attack that disrupted operations at three hospitals in the past week.

In collaboration with law enforcement and independent IT security experts, health system officials said they began a methodical process of system restoration, organization officials said in a statement posted on the health system’s website Oct. 5.

“We have been using our own DCH backup files to rebuild certain system components, and we have obtained a decryption key from the attacker to restore access to locked systems,” officials said.