The group of Russian-speaking hackers Lockbit 3.0, which orchestrated a cyberattack against the Sud Francilien hospital center in Corbeil-Essonnes (CHSF), began disseminating data on Friday September 23, franceinfo learned this Sunday, confirming information from AFP. The hospital had refused to pay the ransom demanded by the hackers. “11 GB of sensitive content has been leaked”, learned franceinfo from a source familiar with the matter.
Data disseminated by hackers “seem to concern (users, staff and partners), the hospital said in a statement. Some of their health data, like “examination reports and in particular external files of anatomocytopathology, radiology, analysis laboratories” and “administrative data”, whose social security number, potentially appear among the data, specifies the establishment.
The hackers, who attacked the hospital on August 21, gave him until September 23 to pay the $10 million ransom. As the deadline expired, the hackers released a series of data.
This Sunday, the establishment ensures that “the business databases of the Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), which include personalized patient files (DPI) and files relating to human resources management, have not been compromised. The attack seems to have been limited to virtual servers and only part of the CHSF storage space (about 10%)”.
The Sud Francilien Hospital Center (CHSF), located in Corbeil-Essonnes, launched its white plan on August 22 in order to redirect patients to other establishments.
The hospital lodged a complaint and seized the National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL). The investigation, opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Center for the Fight against Digital Crime (C3N), is underway. The National Authority for Security and Defense of Information Systems (Anssi) is also seized.
The Minister of Health, François Braun, announced the release of an additional 20 million euros for the protection of health establishments, Friday August 26. “The health of the French will not be held hostage”, he assured. “It is a particularly outrageous attack because it affects the most fragile”, according to the minister, who had thanked the “exemplary mobilization” of the staff of this hospital in the Paris suburbs. “Attacks on hospitals are unfortunately far too common,” he lamented.
The hospital says this Sunday “deeply sorry” and will address “in the coming days individual information to its patients as well as to its staff”.