Chinese hackers behind ransomware attacks on AIIMS servers
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New Delhi: A top source informed new agency IANS that Chinese cyber attackers crashed the servers of attacked the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
It is learnt all the data has been successfully retrieved.
The said source from the Health Ministry said that attackers targeted five physical servers of the hospital, but the data from these five servers have been retrieved now.
The hospital has started the online mode of functioning partially in certain departments. The Out Patient Department (OPD) appointment has been reinstated back on online to a certain extent, a hospital source informed on Wednesday.
The source said that some online and offline new and follow-up registrations have started being made at the new Rajkumari Amrita Kaur (RAK) OPD.
However, the online coordination between the ward admission and the discharge process has not been started yet. Therefore, the discharge is being done in manual mode. The Smart Lab has also not been connected online yet in the hospital.
The AIIMS servers were reported hacked for the first time on November 23. A case of extortion and cyber terrorism was registered by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police two days later.
But police have denied any random demand from the hospital. Delhi Police issued a statement saying that it had said that no such demand had been brought to the notice of the AIIMS administration.