Security News > 2021 > January > CHwapi hospital hit by Windows BitLocker encryption cyberattack

The CHwapi hospital in Belgium is suffering from a cyberattack where threat actors claim to have encrypted 40 servers and 100 TB of data using Windows Bitlocker.

On Sunday, CHwapi suffered an attack that caused the hospital to redirect patients to other hospitals and delay surgical procedures.

While the hospital's services are slowly recovering and surgical operations have resumed, CHwapi continues to cancel some services and redirect urgent cases to other hospitals.

According to Belgium media L'Avenir , CHwapi was attacked on Sunday at 8:46 PM when attackers encrypted 80 out of 300 servers, but the hospital did not receive a ransom demand.

According to the attackers, they used Windows BitLocker to encrypt 40 servers and 100TB of data.

"We attack chwapi hospital in belgium 2 days ago.and set up a ransom notes on servers. but IT management team not give this information to hospital management.hospital management make a press release and said there is no ransom note,but this is a lie.something is going on," the threat actors emailed BleepingComputer.

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