An Ile-De-France Hospital Targeted By Hackers, Who Demand A Ransom Of 10 million Euros
In Essonne, the Sud Francilien Hospital Center was the victim of an extortion attempt after seeing its computer system hacked and paralyzed. Due to the attack, the center directed patients to another.
Prompt Medical Transfer Responses
The attack led the establishment to trigger a white plan. Patients whose care requires access to the technical platform are redirected to public hospitals in Ile-de-France.
According to the press release, hospital safe assess patients in critical situation and send them to the medical center on duty at the Sud Francilien hospital center, according to the press release.
For hospitalized patients, medico-technical services (in particular medical biology) can work in the short term in degraded mode. The establishment does everything possible to maintain outpatient care, he promises.
Nevertheless, on the other hand, this exceptional situation should have an impact on the activity of the operating room. This attack does not impact the operation or security of the hospital building and reassures the hospital center, which specifies that all the networks remain active. telephone, except for the fax and automated flow of distribution.
Investigations Reveal Similar, Related Attacks
An investigation into intrusion into the computer system and for attempted extortion in an organized gang has been opened in the cybercrime section of the Paris prosecutor’s office. The investigations were entrusted to the gendarmes of the Center for the Fight against Digital Crime (C3N).
Health centers are among the targets of hackers. In April 2022, a cyberattack against the information system of the Territory Hospital Group (GHT) Cœur Grand Est. Between Verdun and Bar-le-Duc had already affected nine establishments. Last March, a hospital in Ajaccio was also the victim of a ransomware-type cyberattack.
You don’t shoot an ambulance, says the popular saying, a computer attacker blocking the data of everyone’s hospital group from north-west Lyon, demanding a ransom to unblock them. The hospital center has since been operating in degraded mode, and the Samu must redirect its patients to other establishments.
