Aiims cyber attack

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India is extremely prone to such attacks, especially on health organisations as there is no law that mandates regular audits for healthcare or a body to oversee the same, unlike with payments where the Reserve Bank of India keeps a hawk eye on the organisations and their security levels, said experts ET spoke to. According to reports, another top hospital in New Delhi — Whether it is the country’s economic or market institutions or government organisations, everything is a target and institutions need to be extremely careful in terms of protecting data, said Harshil Doshi, director of sales (India and Saarc) at security information and event management company Securonix. Sources in the IT ministry said after the Also read | "At that time, several government departments such as health, science and technology, nuclear power plants and the armed forces were placed under critical infrastructure category and were asked to double down on their cyber infrastructure,” a senior government official said. Sources said that the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) had completed its “initial investigation” of the cyberattack on AIIMS and found several lapses in following the standard operating procedure prescribed for government departments which handle critical state-run infrastructure. Some experts have also called for government departments to be held more accountable since they deal with a lot of sensitive personal data. "The government should mandate independent threa...

“A malware attack was detected at 1450 hrs by the cyber security system in AIIMS. The attempt was successfully thwarted and the threat was neutralised by the deployed cyber security systems. The e-hospital services remain fully secure and are functioning normally,” AIIMS said in a statement. AIIMS spokesperson Rima Dada told this newspaper that the cyber incident was neutralised by the AIIMS cyber security team. “No loss of patient data. Other sensitive records were found affected during the security breach. The digital services were not working for short a time but was restored by our team,” she said. Union Minister of State for Electronics & Technology, Rajeev Chandrashekhar claimed that there was no cyber incident or breach in AIIMS server. “Someone may have tried accessing this portal and alert generated due to security layer used by AIIMS,” he said. NEW DELHI: Registration, billing and other services at AIIMS were hit on Tuesday due to a malware attack on its server. The apex healthcare institute, however, claimed that it successfully thwarted the cyber attack. “A malware attack was detected at 1450 hrs by the cyber security system in AIIMS. The attempt was successfully thwarted and the threat was neutralised by the deployed cyber security systems. The e-hospital services remain fully secure and are functioning normally,” AIIMS said in a statement. AIIMS spokesperson Rima Dada told this newspaper that the cyber incident was neutralised by the AIIMS cyber security team...

The attack on the computer server of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi was carried out by Chinese hackers, a senior government source said on Wednesday adding that data in the five servers have been successfully retrieved now. AIIMS Delhi first reported a failure in its servers on November 23. (HT File Photo) "AIIMS Delhi server attack was by the Chinese, FIR details that the attack had originated from China. Of 100 servers (40 physical and 60 virtual), five physical servers were successfully infiltrated by the hackers. The damage would have been far worse but is now contained. Data in the five servers have been successfully retrieved now," said the source from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). Also Read | AIIMS website restoration continues, lab services are back online AIIMS Delhi first reported a failure in its servers on November 23. Two of the analysts deployed to look after the servers' securities have also been suspended for the alleged breach of cyber security. AIIMS authorities in a statement issued stated that the e-Hospital data has been restored. "The eHospital data has been restored on the servers. The network is being sanitized before the services can be restored. The process is taking some time due to the volume of data and the large number of servers/computers for the hospital services. Measures are being taken for cyber security," they had said. Also Read | Tharoor raises AIIMS cyber attack in Lok Sabha, demands urge...

All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) is still recovering from the cyberattack it reported almost two weeks ago. While the authorities are sanitising the servers and computers, a circular has revealed that officials of one of the country's apex health institutions were directed to implement cybersecurity policies issued by the government. In a circular dated August 16, concerned officials were directed to comply with cyber security policies issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The Earlier this year, it was reported that AIIMS, Delhi decided to go paperless from January 1, 2023, and would implement an e-Hospital programme. The programme will have services like automated emails to doctors, ABHA IDs for all patients, doctor-specific OPD appointments, among others. To enforce the same, a demonstration of e-Hospital modules was also carried out on October 17 by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) team. How to link health records with ABHA account using DigiLocker app The health locker services are now available to all registered DigiLocker users. In addition to this, users can also scan and upload their old health records on the app. Here’s how to get it done: AIIMS server are still down The server at AIIMS continues to be down since the hospital first reported the cyber attack on November 23. Internet services are still blocked and all hospital services, including outpatient, in-patient, laborat...

Meanwhile, two systems analysts are learnt to have been suspended on Monday for not responding to phone calls and not attending an emergency meeting on November 23, when the cyber attack took place. The duo were issued showcause notices on November 24, and told to file their written replies the same evening. The showcause notice issued to one of the analysts, who is learnt to have been on leave at the time, mentioned that the official was contacted on phone, but did not respond. The notice, seen by Sources said the second showcause notice was similar in content. While hospital services have been operating in manual mode since the cyber attack, a team of experts from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) and National Informatics Centre (NIC) are working on restoring digital services. Significantly, sources said that besides the servers, the AIIMS network and its computers are “also vulnerable”. Therefore, following the advice of CERT-in, AIIMS internet and AIIMS intranet have been discontinued and “their vulnerabilities are being addressed”, said sources. “AIIMS has about 10,000 computers and not all of them have updated anti-virus applications. This is also being addressed,” sources said. The restoration of servers is taking longer than expected as it is a highly technical job that involves three broad steps, said sources. First, the five infected servers have to be verified. Second, they will then have to be restored. Third, the data backed up on the five ...