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The breakthrough to Hillel Yaffe: The Ministry of Health's cyber array room was not manned by attackers
One week after the cyber attack on the computer systems of the hospital in Hadera, Walla!
It was learned that there was no one in the array operating 24 hours a day and was designed to protect the life-saving equipment.
Ministry of Health: "The investigation has not yet been completed, at this stage it can not be said that there is a connection between the cyber incident and the continuous staffing of the cyber center"
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Meirav Cohen
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 08:50 Updated: 09:50
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The computer systems of Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera have been shut down for a week, following a cyber attack carried out by hackers.
According to information obtained by Walla !, the Ministry of Health's cyber array was not manned on the night of the break-in.
The likelihood is that if he had been manned that night, the burglary of the hospital computers could have been prevented and stopped.
The Ministry of Health's cyber system is connected to all the computer systems of all the hospitals and its role is to provide them with protection from attacks, whether criminal, as in the present case, or whether carried out on a nationalist background.
The purpose of the array is primarily to protect the life-saving computerized equipment found in hospitals so that hackers can not disrupt the operation of respirators or dialysis pumps and cause widespread death, so its importance is great, and position staffing can pose a great danger.
The cyber system in the Ministry of Health is active 24 hours a day, and at night the activity is limited.
Sources in the cyber array told Walla!
Because another reason the break-in occurred is because the hospital's own defense system is very weak.
In addition, repairing and restoring the data is expected to take many more days, and it already appears that a lot of damage has been done to the information stored in the computers.
More on Walla!
Cyber attack on Hillel Yaffe Hospital, no harm to medical care
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Weak defense system.
Hillel Yaffe (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Currently continues Hospital in standardization because all the equipment works regularly, but the Ministry of Health asked Laniado Hospital in Netanya collect the Hillel Yaffe asked MDA to refer patients to soft and medium him, so that they reach very few critical patients Hillel Yaffe.
During the last weekend Additional burglary attempts were made at ten hospitals across the country, most of them government hospitals there, the defense systems are less good. All these attempts were halted, and the work of the hospitals continued as usual. All the critical material for the care of patients.
If it had been manned, it is likely that the attack could have been prevented.
Hillel Yaffe (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)
Hillel Yaffe Hospital stated that "as far as the hospital is concerned, the fault was detected in real time and dealt with immediately by the hospital's information security personnel, who worked to disconnect the communication systems and report to any required party. This activity was praised. The role of 'cyber controller' "It is not at all within the scope of the hospital, and the hospital has never been required to do so. The investigation into the matter is ongoing by the police and no conclusions have yet been submitted."
The Ministry of Health stated that "the investigation into the causes of the cyber incident in Hillel Yaffe has not yet been completed. At this stage, it cannot be said that there is a connection between the cyber incident and the 24/7 continuous staffing of the Ministry of Health cyber center." ".
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