The Verdun hospital was looted. The thieves did not go through the windows, but through the computers. The loot: the administrative data of staff and patients. Thousands of files have been stolen and resold on the Internet. The hospital’s IT department is overwhelmed by the attack. The management took a drastic decision the next day. “We have decided to cut all Internet connections to avoid any contamination on all GHT establishments and to prevent hackers from continuing their attack”, specifies Jérôme Goeminne, director of the Hospital Group of the Heart Grand East territory. Consequence of the decision: return to old technologies, in particular the fax. “It slows down the activity, it’s more complicated. We have less feedback from the laboratories. But it works, the supplies arrive”, explains Dr. Jean-Pascal Collinot, president of the medical commission of the GHT. The goal of cyberattacks is not to prevent the operation of the targets, but to steal data from them. This information can quickly find use in the wrong hands. “One of the possible uses is for identity fraud. Once you have a little bit of all of a person’s data, it’s very easy to impersonate them and continue on. ‘other forms of fraud’. The Ardèche departmental council was also the victim of a cyberattack. The department has renovated security to prevent the scenario from happening again. “Passwords with Ardèche in them were too simple and that’s it. We’re back to passwords that have a certain complexity. It’s going to be special characters with capitals and lowercase letters.” The best security remains vigilance. In most cases, the cyberattack happens after the user has replied or clicked on a suspicious email sent by cybercriminals. TF1 | Report F. Litzler, P. Vogel, V. Dietsch, FX Ménage, G. Charnay, Q. Russel, F. Petit, V. Christophe
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