Bajaj Hospital servers encrypted overnight; Crypto 24 named
Original title: IN: 9 servers of Bajaj Hospital hacked in cyberattack at 3 am, sensitive data stolen; systems encrypted
Billing and the hospital management system failed at 3 a.m., and a note said the ransom would rise if police were called.
Lokmat Times reports that attackers hit all nine servers at Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital around 3 a.m. on October 18, encrypting data and stopping the Hospital Management System and billing. A notepad message named the Crypto 24 gang, warned that the ransom would rise if police were contacted, and threatened to leak hospital information on a Tor site. IT staff found access denied on every server and could not use the firewall.
Unconfirmed: Data theft and Crypto 24 attribution rest on the attackers' notepad message, not an independent confirmation.
- The billing system crashed at 3 a.m. on October 18.
- All nine servers showed access denied and the HMIS was unresponsive.
- Attackers threatened to publish hospital data on a Tor leak site.
- A notepad message named the Crypto 24 gang.
Impact: Hospital systems encrypted and sensitive data allegedly stolen
- Threat actors
- Crypto 24
- Victims
- Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital
- Countries
- India
From the original article
2 min read at databreaches.netThe Lokmat Times Desk reports: A cyber attack on the digital systems of Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital has sent shockwaves through the city. Around midnight, hackers broke into all nine of the hospital’s servers and encrypted its entire data in what appears to be a digital heist aimed at extorting money. The attack has put patient...
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