Business is gaining momentum - if it never stopped? for cybercriminals. Following a data breach that may have been due to Nexeya ransomware, a hospital located in Corbeil-Essonne, Essonne, was the victim of a ransomware cyberattack late last week. The computer network of the Sud Francilien hospital center was blocked on the night of August 20-21, Franceinfo reports, citing a police source. The information was originally disclosed by RMC.
The hackers are demanding a $10 million ransom for unlocking the information system and not disclosing patients’ personal data. The prosecutor’s office of Paris was arrested. in The investigation is carried out by the Center for Combating Digital Crime (C3N) of the National Gendarmerie.
unable to provide normal operation
The attack blocked commercial software, medical imaging systems, and the hospital’s admissions system, which is thus no longer able to operate normally and admit new patients. His emergency department is operating in “degraded mode,” RMC clarifies.
Hospitals whose IT budgets are insufficient compared to the risks they carry are regularly targeted by cyberattacks. AP-HP, the Rouen University Hospital, the hospitals of Dax, Saint-Gaudens, Villefranche-sur-Saone, Castelluccio, Vitry-le-Francois have already paid their price. In 2021, health agencies reported 733 security incidents.