German hospital hacked, patient taken to another city dies

The best defense is actually a good backup system. Modern ones can make snapshots every 10 min or something like that. Allowing blackmail to happen is probably a bad decision as it supports the industry, which has a revenue of multiple million $.

Still surprised that dysfunctional networks prevented such an important operation though. Careful network segmenting could probably have prevented this, but it takes considerable IT resources that probably were not available.

That they killed the network of the hospital for a week is unacceptable and they say it will take a long time to restore it properly. I expect more investment in IT resources.

I couldn't find any mention about "add-on" software in German articles, maybe it is a translation error?