Rome, 13 September 2021 – Ahacker attack at the San Giovanni Addolorata hospital From Rome. “Technical investigations have been underway since this morning – informs a note from the structure – following a ransomware-type cyber attack. The IT security technicians are at work, the postal police immediately intervened and the necessary reports have been made to all the competent national authorities “. “The hospitalization, outpatient, assistance and emergency services of the first aid continued – continues the note from San Giovanni. The hemodynamics, interventional radiology and operative activities were carried out regularly. We are working hard – assures the company health – to restore all functions in the shortest possible time, ensuring the continuity of hospital care “.
In particular they were computer and email blocked: it was not possible to access medical records or reports: every operation normally performed on the PC was performed by hand.
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The cyber attack on the Roman hospital arrives just when the Lazio Region, whose system had been paralyzed by hackers starting from 1 August, makes it known that it has restored all services. The American FBI also intervened to help the Lazio Region.
“The Lazio Region has suffered one of the biggest hacks ever. Now, fortunately, we have overcome the difficulty without losing any data, and in the last week we have restored all the services in just over a month “- said today Albino Ruberti, head of the cabinet of the president of the Lazio Region Zingaretti.” Precisely for this – he added – we must all equip ourselves better with respect to security, cybersecurity. We have experienced very hard moments of concern, for the possibility of offering services and losing data. I would stimulate a reflection on the strengthening of these defense tools against hackers. “To date, the services for citizens are all operational and no data is missing, thanks to a backup system.
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