Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 14: Leading government sources have disclosed that the Chinese were responsible for hacking the AIIMS system in Delhi.
Out of 100 servers (40 physical and 60 virtual), the officials reported that five physical servers had been successfully breached by hackers. The sources claim that without prompt action, the harm would have been significantly worse.
Sources revealed that the initial layer of the server attack had been broken and that the investigation teams had focused on Zhenan and Hong Kong in China.
According to sources, the hackers were utilising VPN to conceal their IP addresses. The investigators have narrowed down the location after breaking the VPN.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi had severe service disruptions in November as a result of the hospital’s server going down for about nine hours. According to a statement issued by AIIMS, the server was unavailable because of a potential ransomware assault.
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Hackers allegedly requested from AIIMS 200 crore rupees in cryptocurrencies. Due to the detected breach, it was feared that the information of 3–4 crore patients had been compromised.
The emergency, outpatient, inpatient, and laboratory wings’ patient care services were manually administered while the servers were offline.
Millions of patients’ personal data were compromised after a cyberattack on the hospital’s five major servers occurred on December 2. The cyberattack was allegedly carried out by Chinese hackers, according to sources.
