After Corbeil-Essonnes, Dax, Vitry-le-François or even Saint-Gaudens, a new French hospital is the target of a cyber attack. Since Saturday evening, the Versailles hospital center located in Chesnay-Rocquencourt, near Paris, has been the subject of a major cyber attack. This interrupts the activity of the entire hospital center, including the André-Mignot hospital. The hospital teams have isolated the infected systems to limit the spread of the attack and alerted the ANSI.
Patient transfers
A thorough diagnosis of the situation is currently underway in all departments of the plant. Crews have been called in to assist with resuscitation and continuing care services. If the machines dedicated to care work, networking is no longer possible and therefore more people are needed to monitor patients, explained Health Minister François Braun during a trip to the hospital.
The regional health agency (Ars) invites patients to dial 15 in case of emergency and not to go to the scene. Samu deals with the regulation of emergencies but also with the transfer of patients at risk. Some transfers have already been made and others are in preparation. The ARS adds that the Versailles hospital has “it has activated its white plan, has partially descheduled its operating room activities, and is doing everything it can to maintain its outpatient care and consultations.”
The computer prosecutor’s office in Paris has opened an investigation
A complaint was filed and the Paris IT prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into attempted extortion, access to and maintenance of a computer system set up by the State, introduction of data and obstruction of this system. All organised. However, the origin of the criminal group behind the cyber attack is not yet known.
It would be comparable to that suffered by the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital, he reports FranceInfo. The Sud Francilien Hospital Center had its computer network blocked during the night between 20 and 21 August. The criminals, who appear to be linked to the Russian hacker group LockBit 3.0, demanded a $10 million ransom to unlock the information system and not disclose patient personal data. Implementing the threat, patient health information was released in September.
These aren’t the only hospitals that have fallen victim to cyberattacks. Attacks against hospitals have increased for several months. Sometimes equipment is taken out of service, patient health information is collected and/or blocked. The government then announced in late August that it would inject 20 million euros into Anssi to boost support for hospitals. It will be enough?
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