The services of the South Francilien Hospital Center in Corbeil-Essonnes have been the subject of a computer attack since Sunday.
“Our IT specialists spotted a malfunction on our network overnight from Saturday to Sunday at 1 a.m.
They first thought of a breakdown.
Before receiving a ransom demand of 10 million dollars.
No hospital has paid and will not pay, ”warned Gilles Calmes, director general of the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital.
The National Agency for Security and Defense of Information Systems was immediately seized.
The Paris prosecutor's office announced the opening of an investigation.
Due to this cyberattack, the hospital's database remains inaccessible, with unschedulable operations and patients being redirected to other facilities.
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“The problem is that we no longer have access to patient files.
Everything is slowing down, we work the old way, by hand.
This gives caregivers an additional overload, but a solution will be found at each stage, ”explains Dr. Valérie Caudwell, president of the establishment’s medical commission.
In the operating room, all the interventions planned for this week can be maintained.
“On the other hand, from next week, perhaps we will have to postpone operations, everything will depend on whether or not the information system problem is resolved quickly,” warns the hospital management.
Difficult to determine the time it will take for a return to normal.
For example, in early 2021, the city of Angers also suffered a cyberattack.
According to Lionel Doumeng of WithSecure, “it took him a year to completely recover all his applications”.