Clinic Hackers Threaten To Destroy Information About Patients With Infectious Diseases
Clinic hackers threaten to destroy information about patients with infectious diseases
WORLD
08/04/2023
Updated: 22 hours ago
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Clinic hackers threaten to destroy information about patients with infectious diseases
The cyberattack that the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona suffered at the beginning of March, and which disrupted its activity, is still open and bothers the Catalan authorities. After the recent steps taken by the Mossos d’Esquadra to end the case, blocking the pirate gates at the beginning of the week, now the authors of the “hack” have threatened this Thursday to publish new stolen data.
In particular, they warned that “in the near future” they will publish information about patients with infectious diseases and information about the use of experimental drugs in the elderly that the Barcelona center carries out. The ‘hackers’, the Ransom House collective, have already published thousands of controversial data from the hospital in the first ‘deep web’.
In a statement, the hackers reveal that the events will take place in days that will “greatly harass the police” and they thank the Mossos for blocking their site, which they say is due to this intervention. I find it a “much faster way to distribute files”.
Cybercriminals have already stolen between three and four gigabytes of data that included the identity and health data of patients, personal workers and staffing entities and center providers.
Movement before the Mossos
This Thursday’s announcement came two days after the Mossos d’Esquadra confirmed that it had “taken access to data” stolen in a cyberattack. Earlier they announced that the Catalan police planned to carry out an operation against the Internet portal.
The critical action of the Redemption House from the beginning consisted of encrypting the information from the virtual center of services, so that neither the patients’ data can be consulted nor the new data can be added or the existing ones can be recovered. The hackers are demanding $4.5 million to release the data.
“They are criminals and they act like that. First they left the hospital without operational capacity and secondly they make extortions through the data”, Tomàs Roy, director of the Agency of Catalonia Cybersecurity, confirmed in the statements to TV3.
WORLD
08/04/2023
Updated: 22 hours ago
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Clinic hackers threaten to destroy information about patients with infectious diseases
The cyberattack that the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona suffered at the beginning of March, and which disrupted its activity, is still open and bothers the Catalan authorities. After the recent steps taken by the Mossos d’Esquadra to end the case, blocking the pirate gates at the beginning of the week, now the authors of the “hack” have threatened this Thursday to publish new stolen data.
In particular, they warned that “in the near future” they will publish information about patients with infectious diseases and information about the use of experimental drugs in the elderly that the Barcelona center carries out. The ‘hackers’, the Ransom House collective, have already published thousands of controversial data from the hospital in the first ‘deep web’.
In a statement, the hackers reveal that the events will take place in days that will “greatly harass the police” and they thank the Mossos for blocking their site, which they say is due to this intervention. I find it a “much faster way to distribute files”.
Cybercriminals have already stolen between three and four gigabytes of data that included the identity and health data of patients, personal workers and staffing entities and center providers.
Movement before the Mossos
This Thursday’s announcement came two days after the Mossos d’Esquadra confirmed that it had “taken access to data” stolen in a cyberattack. Earlier they announced that the Catalan police planned to carry out an operation against the Internet portal.
The critical action of the Redemption House from the beginning consisted of encrypting the information from the virtual center of services, so that neither the patients’ data can be consulted nor the new data can be added or the existing ones can be recovered. The hackers are demanding $4.5 million to release the data.
“They are criminals and they act like that. First they left the hospital without operational capacity and secondly they make extortions through the data”, Tomàs Roy, director of the Agency of Catalonia Cybersecurity, confirmed in the statements to TV3.
