A major cyber attack has been revealed on the online system of Delhi AIIMS. Data of about 4 crore patients have been stolen from the AIIMS system. This is the biggest hacking ever in the country's medical sector. 8 years ago the data of AIIMS was completely digitized. After that many former Prime Ministers, President, Vice President, and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi including Atal Bihar have been treated in AIIMS. The personal data of all these have been hacked from the server of AIIMS.
For the last two days, NIC, CBI, IB, DRDO, and Delhi Police are engaged in the investigation. On the other hand, two system analysts of AIIMS have been suspended.
According to sources, there is a possibility of a connection between international cybercrime in a data hack. Delhi Police has said that this is a matter related to cyber terror. An FIR has been registered in this regard on Thursday. The server of Delhi AIIMS is down since 7 am on Wednesday, which could not be recovered even after about 48 hours. Due to this, patients are facing problems with online registration in the hospital.
Checking of computers connected to the online central system
Investigating agencies are scanning all the computers connected to the online centralized system at AIIMS. Cyber experts and software engineers are looking for the source and receiver of the data hack. Along with this, measures are also being taken to deal with the possible threat of cyber attacks.
The Internet was closed, and all work is being done manually
The Internet has been shut down in AIIMS. The database of e-hospital database and lab information system is captured on an external hard drive. Four extra servers have been installed. All work is being done manually in OPD and IPD.
Delhi Police is anticipating a ransomware attack
Police are considering a ransomware attack in the initial investigation. An FIR has been registered under sections of extortion.
Pharma companies, surgical instrument companies, and other medical companies can take advantage of this data for their interests.
Cert in response team also included...
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team is also involved with crime investigation agencies in the investigation of the data hack from AIIMS computers. The teams of CERT-In are probing the technical aspects of cyber hacking.
There are 3 lakh cyber attacks every month in the country.
According to a recent report by IndusFace, there are about 3 lakh cyber attacks on the healthcare sector in India every month. These are the second most cyber attacks in the world. There are about half a million cyber attacks on the American health sector every month.
More cases found in 2021
There were at least 130 different ransomware active in 2020 and 30,000 groups of malware were found in the first half of 2021. which looked and operated identically. Out of these 100 ransomware are such that their activity never stops. Attackers are using a variety of methods, including well-known botnet malware and other remote access trojans (RATs), to deliver their ransomware to as many people as possible.
In most cases, they use new ransomware samples. However, Google says that there have been no ransomware attacks on any professional, educational, or customer Chrome OS devices on its Google Chrome OS cloud-first platform.
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