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01/12/22 13:00 PM IST

AIIMS Delhi server down, ransomware attack

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  • Services at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were badly affected recently as the server used by the hospital was down for close to nine hours.
About Cyberattack 
  • The ransomware attack caused the outage of e-hospital system of AIIMS, affecting digital hospital services, including smart labs, billing, report generation and appointment system.
  • It exposed hospital records of some 40 million patients of AIIMS, including former prime ministers, ministers, bureaucrats and judges.
  • The exploited AIIMS database may have contained Private Personal Information (PPI) of healthcare workers, blood donors, ambulances, vaccination, caregivers, and employee login credentials.
  • The hackers have allegedly demanded transfer of around Rs.200 crore in cryptocurrency from the AIIMS.
  • This cyberattack comes at the time when the AIIMS institute is planning to fully implement the e-hospital system by 2023 as part of its transition to become a paperless hospital.
  • The e-hospital system was developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC). It is an HMIS hosted on the MeghRaj national cloud system that digitizes the internal workflows and processes. It serves as a single digital platform that connects hospitals, patients and doctors.
Source- Hindustan Times 

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