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<p class="gmail-first-paragraph">Sonoma Valley Hospital’s website was hacked
earlier this month, forcing the change of its URL and email addresses,
hospital officials announced last week.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., the hospital’s domain <a href="http://svh.com">svh.com</a> was
“maliciously acquired,” said Celia Kruse de la Rosa, the hospital’s
communications director.</p>
<p>Hospital CEO Kelly Mather added: “The hijacking of our domain name
was surprising and we are finding out, not unusual for highly valuable
three letter domain names such as ‘svh.com.’”</p>
<p>When it became apparent that the hospital would not get the domain
name returned, they “began migrating all internet connectivity to the
new and current domain: <a href="http://sonomavalleyhospital.org">sonomavalleyhospital.org</a> (web) and
@<a href="http://sonomavalleyhospital.org">sonomavalleyhospital.org</a> (email),” de la Rosa said.</p>
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