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Oloron Sainte-Marie hospital attacked by ransomware, the third in a month

2021-03-09T22:55:23.624Z


Oloron Sainte-Marie hospital has been facing ransomware since Monday. Hackers are asking him for $ 50,000 to unlock the


“The establishment is the victim of a cyber attack.

The hospital of Oloron Sainte-Marie, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, did not go there by four ways, Tuesday, on Facebook.

A large-scale computer attack has hit this hospital center since Monday, severely disrupting its computer system.

This is the third cyberattack on a hospital in a month.

This hospital, which employs some 600 people for 321 beds and places in this sub-prefecture, has been hit by a "ransomware" attack whereby hackers break into the computer system and then encrypt its files to return them. inoperative, demanding a ransom to unlock them.

On the screens of the Oloron hospital, messages in English appeared demanding a ransom of $ 50,000 in bitcoins (crypto currency).

[CYBER ATTACK ALERT] The establishment is the victim of a cyberattack. The teams are doing their utmost to restore ...

Posted by Center Hospitalier d'Oloron Sainte-Marie on Tuesday March 9, 2021

Since she was spotted on Monday, officers have been using paper and pencils.

"We have disconnected all the workstations to limit losses," explained the director of the hospital Frédéric Lecenne to the daily La République des Pyrénées.

“We can recover our networks in 48 hours, as in three months.

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The cyber attack affects most of the data related to patient health information, which could lead to postponements of some interventions, failing a rapid return to normalcy, the management explained.

It also complicates the - computerized - management of drug stocks, but without calling into question the vaccination campaign against Covid-19, at this stage.

Hospitals targeted

A complaint was lodged with the gendarmerie and the cybercrime unit of the Pau gendarmerie went there, alongside agents from the National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (Anssi), cybersecurity gendarme on the territory.

The Pau prosecutor's office said at the end of the day that it had relinquished jurisdiction in favor of the cybercrime section of the Paris prosecutor's office, which has national jurisdiction in the matter.

This is the third cyberattack recorded in a month in a hospital environment after those which paralyzed the hospitals of Dax (Landes) and Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône), on February 8 and 15, and following which President Emmanuel Macron has announced a billion-euro response to strengthen the cybersecurity of sensitive systems.

Healthcare facilities have become prime targets of the cyber threat since the health crisis, "the attack arguably making it easier for hospitals to pay the ransom given the critical need for business continuity," according to a report from the 'Anssi.

Source: leparis

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