Security News > 2022 > April > French hospital group disconnects Internet after hackers steal data
Hospitals and Health Care group has disconnected all incoming and outgoing Internet connections after discovering they suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of sensitive administrative and patient data.
The cyberattack occurred on April 19th and affected the CHs of Vitry-le-François and Saint-Dizier, causing GHT to disconnect Internet connections to the hospitals to prevent the attack's spread and further data theft.
The hospital network says that the attackers also managed to copy administrative computer data stored in the establishment's systems and warn that other threat actors may publish and use the data.
Due to the data breach that has taken place, the risk of social engineering attacks and scams against patients or hospital employees has increased dramatically.
Valéry Rieß-Marchive, the editor-in-chief of the French infosec news portal LeMagIT, told Bleeping Computer that while GHT is a large group of public medical facilities, the cyberattack appears to only impact the hospital in Vitry-Le-François.
At the end of March, the Hospital de Castelluccio in Corsica was hit by hackers who also managed to exfiltrate sensitive patient data and other documents during the attack.