Chandrapur, 06

June (HS): The National Care Foundation’s Cancer Hospital faced cyber attack

for a huge ransom to retrieve the data. The attacker has locked the data by

interfering in the main server of the hospital. The attacker has demanded

ransom of 123456 Bitcoin, which comes to around Rs 75 lakh.

The valuable

data including details of patients’ information has been hacked. The

information system is totally stopped functioning.

The technical

error was detected on June 1. The demand for ranson was seen while searching

for the fault. A complaint was lodged with the Cyber Cell of Ramnagar Police

Station. Further investigation was in progress.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar