After AIIMS Delhi, hacking attempts on Indian Council of Medical Research’s server
NEW DELHI, DEC 6: There were at least 6,000 attempts to hack the server of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on November 30. However, the hackers were not successful in their pursuit.
A detailed report on the hacking attempt is being prepared by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Sources told India Today that the attack on the ICMR website was carried out through a blacklisted IP address based in Hong Kong. However, ICMR’s server firewall did not have any loopholes for the hackers to obtain patient information.
Earlier on November 23, services at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were badly affected as the server used by the hospital was down for close to nine hours. A statement released by AIIMS said the server was down due to a possible ransomware attack.
Then on December 2, five main servers of the hospital came under a cyber attack, thus compromising the personal data of millions of patients. According to sources, the cyber attack was suspected to be carried out by Chinese hackers.
Days later, on December 4, a cyber attack was reported at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. However, the attack was not as severe as those reported at AIIMS.
On December 3, CloudSEK, a firm that predicts cyber threats, said they discovered that the personal data of 1.5 lakh patients from Tamil Nadu’s Sree Saran Medical Center was sold by hackers on popular cyber crime forums and a Telegram channel used to sell databases.
-The India Today
