It was two o'clock in the morning on Tuesday when Jean Fabre, head of emergencies at the Dax hospital center (Landes), noticed that the computers were no longer reacting.
Probably a small breakdown.
Painful, of course.
The activity is sustained that evening, but the caregivers are broken in, after a year of epidemic.
Then the receptionist rushed in, panic-stricken:
“No more hospital phones are working
”.
"There, I understood that it was very serious",
remembers the emergency physician.
The hospital was the victim of a particularly massive cyber attack, known as “ransomware”;
the malware encrypted the data and crippled the computer system.
“It was panic on board. It's like groping around in the dark, ”
blows Jean Fabre.
As computer scientists begin to assess the extent of the damage, patients are flocking to the emergency room.
It is impossible without a computer to register newcomers, to communicate with the various departments, to print the analysis results.
"My big one
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