The hacker group started spreading hacked data during the August 22 cyberattack. 1.5 million people, patients or hospital staff, are concerned.
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The South Francilien Hospital Center of Corbeil-Essonnes (CHSF) will start “arrangement“patients and staff for”lodge a complaint“, after the cyberattack suffered by the hospital, announced Sunday, September 25 on franceinfo the mayor of Corbeil-Essonnes Bruno Piriou, member of the supervisory board of the CHSF.
“With the administration, we will write to all those who have been patients in the hospital, to the staff, to provide them with the possibility of filing a complaint.“, says Bruno Piriou. “It is about filing a complaint against the criminals and not against the hospital which is the victim“, he specifies.
On Friday, the Russian-speaking hacker group Lockbit 3.0, which orchestrated the August 22 cyberattack by encryption against the CHSF, began releasing data. “Over ten years, these are data which concern nearly one million 500,000 people who have been patients in the hospital and then thousands of agents. It’s considerable“, underlines the mayor.
Faced with this attack and blackmail, “we must be united“, insists the mayor of Corbeil-Essonnes. He calls “all those who may have been in contact with the hospital in recent years to be very careful” on their data. The member of the supervisory board of the hospital reminds that everyone is “agreed, whether at the top of the state or local elected officials“, so as not to give in to blackmail.”It can be beyond us. We all have to agree in our Republic, let this set a precedent“, assures the chosen one.
“If we start giving millions of euros to criminals so that they do not disclose data, it is the open door for this to happen again all the time.”
Bruno Piriou, mayor of Corbeil-Essonnesat franceinfo
Bruno Piriou also calls for “learn lessons“of this attack.”It is necessary to rethink computer systems that are not centralized.“He reminds that”several hospitals in Essonne have been closed” to build “a huge hospital“. The consequence according to him is that he “it is enough to attack a computer system of a single large hospital to jeopardize the entire health system“.