California hospital makes rare admission of hack, ransom payment

(Correcting 12th paragraph of story published Feb. 18 to remove extra word “is” in quote from Symantec’s Bob Shaker) LOS ANGELES/BOSTON (Reuters) - While it was not the first hacked organization to acquiesce to attackers’ demands, the California hospital that paid $17,000 in ransom to hackers to regain control of its computer system was unusual in one notable way: It went public with the news. Hol