Did a cyberattack cause the death of a woman in Germany?
For the first time the question was asked by justice.
The facts date back to the night of September 9-10, when Düsseldorf University Hospital was targeted by a digital attack.
The next day, a 78-year-old patient who was seriously ill had to be redirected to the hospital in Wuppertal, 30 km away.
She died soon after.
Rarely, the Cologne prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for manslaughter.
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If the case received little publicity, it nevertheless attracted the attention of many cybersecurity specialists, seeing it as the possible first death directly - and officially - linked to a cyberattack.
"The fact that the judicial institution is opening an investigation for manslaughter is quite new,"
said Stéphane Duguin, executive director of the NGO CyberPeace Institute and former member of Europol.
“To my knowledge, this is the first case where a possible direct link between
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