Victim of a cyberattack at the end of August which paralyzed part of its computer system, the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital center announced on Tuesday that it was preparingresume normal activity” by the end of the month.
By October 31,80% of the IT solutions necessary for the operation of the hospital services should be restored“, rejoiced in a press release addressed to AFP the management of the southern Ile-de-France hospital center (CHSF), which provides health coverage for nearly 700,000 inhabitants of the Greater Paris suburbs. From November,the CHSF will be able to exercise (…) the level of activity that it provides in its health territory“, that is “nearly 6,000 hospital stays per month“.
Decline in recruitment
However, its activity may still be affected by some disruptions due to the final reconstruction of IT services, management said. Currently, the hospitalization capacity is ensured at 86% of its normal functioning, the emergency reception service at 73%, the pediatric emergencies at 96% and those of obstetrics gynecology at 90%.
Acute cardiology care remained assured and that of strokes (cerebrovascular accidents) resumed on October 10, the hospital further specified. “A significant impact of this cyberattack is the drop in recruitment and withdrawal of applications (non-medical personnel)“, regretted his direction. The complete restoration of computer systems for archiving, medical imaging, pharmacy inventory management and business software should allow staff to no longer work in degraded mode.
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Some of them had told AFP in September about their work at the “BIC pen” and “in front of black screens», crumbling under the paper files with the «fear” errors. The establishment was hit on August 21 by a cyberattack with a ransom demand of $10 million, later reduced to one or two million dollars, according to the sources.
An investigation had been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Center for the Fight against Digital Crime (C3N). The hackers had set a September 23 ultimatum for the hospital to pay the ransom. After that time, they had released a series of data on the “dark web“.
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