The Sud Francilien Hospital Center (CHSF) has launched its white plan, that is, its emergency and crisis plan, after a cyberattack impacting the computer system, which occurred overnight from Saturday to Sunday, announced the management of the establishment in a press release. The pirates claim a ransom of 10 million dollarsaccording to franceinfo.
Hospital software related to patient admissions and storage systems including medical imaging are impacted. This directly affects emergency operations. “Patients who present spontaneously are assessed and then possibly referred to the CHSF’s Maison Médicale de Garde”, specify the direction. When certain equipment is technically necessary, patients are also referred to other public hospitals in Île-de-France.
The management plans to deprogram certain operations, it still indicates in its press release. The CHSF puts “everything to maintain ambulatory care” that he can provide outside the operating room and people hospitalized in the establishment can continue to be taken care of.
The National Authority for Security and Defense of Information Systems (ANSSI) was seized.