FBI Director Christoper Wray said that the feds had stopped a cyberattack on a Nebraska hospital, WOWT reports.
The bad actors had targeted six different co-ops within the Omaha FBI jurisdiction, which includes Iowa, a number of times in the last year, he said. Those attacks had the potential to create major damage to Nebraska’s biggest businesses.
There were tense moments a month ago at the Butler County Health Care Center in David City, NE. The IT director received a call from the Omaha FBI with a warning that this place was the target of a cyberattack. Cynthia Neesen took the call and headed to the server room where she was able to take the targeted server offline before hackers could infiltrate the hospital’s systems.
Agents are still working on tracking down who was behind it. Read more.
