navi mumbai mgm hospital vashi has come under a ransomware attack a hacker locked data in the hospitals computer system and sent a web link demanding ransom in bitcoins to unlock it just 10 days ago a hacker had similarly stolen computer data of hotel three star kharghar and demanded a bitcoin ransom of 400 mgm hospitals management system coordinator ramnath parmeshwaram lodged a complaint with the cybercrime cell and an fir under the it acts sections 43 penalty and compensation for damage to computer system and 66 computerrelated offences done dishonestly or fraudulently was registered at the vashi police station on monday hospital authorities came to know of the attack on sunday after a receptionist switched on her computer only to stare at a blank screen a system administrator who had remote access to the hospitals network from his residence received a message on his computer screen about a virus attack soon the hospital authorities switched off all computers that were part of its local network to arrest the spread of the virus with which the attack had been launched but it was too late as all computer terminals by then had been infected administrator pk shashankar said the web link sent by the hacker contained the ransom demand but we did not open the link and hence dont know the ransom amount demanded except that the hacker wants bitcoins our technical experts are taking corrective measures and they are trying to decrypt our hacked data as of now the hospitals administration is functioning smoothly and there is no financial loss dcp crime tushar doshi said hospital staff might have clicked on a spam link sent on a suspicious email through which the virus attack occurred the data frozen is of 15 days