Another top hospital in New Delhi reported a cyber attack last month.
Safdarjung Hospital, a 1,500-bed government hospital, recently revealed that cybercriminals also hacked their IT systems in November. However, no data was compromised when the system was down. movement in a day.
Although Chief Medical Officer Dr BL Sherwal did not elaborate on the nature of the attack, he said the incident was not caused by ransomware. He added that the system was immediately restored by the National Informatics Center, the government agency responsible for activating all government IT systems in India.
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Safdarjung Hospital is the second hospital in New Delhi recently to suffer a cyber attack. But unlike the case of AIIMS Delhi, its OPD services were not severely affected as they had previously run these services manually.
Nearly two weeks since reporting a ransomware attack, AIIMS Delhi has yet to bring its digital services back online. Affected services include smart labs, billing, report generation, and appointment systems.
Meanwhile, a recent analysis by local cybersecurity AI company CloudSEK has found that sensitive information of about 150,000 patients of Sree Saran Medical Center in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu is being sold on the internet. dark web.
The stolen information, including the patient’s date of birth, address and doctor details, came from the hospital’s database between 2007 and 2011. The database is believed to have been created by the hospital. Formerly managed by Three Cube IT Lab.
According to CloudSEK researchers, the original malicious actors may have infiltrated the Three Cube IT Lab to steal sensitive information from the hospital.
The researchers found those stolen data on November 22 when they were for sale via Telegram and cybercrime forums. One The news report notes that the database first sold for $100, then $400 to resellers.
Responding to the reports, Sree Saran Medical Center denied that there was a compromise on their patient’s medical details. Dr A.M. Palanisamy, the hospital’s president, was cited in another article. news reports say that they only engaged with Three Cube IT Labs for a year to use its software to build their database. They then switched to another carrier in 2018.
