Had to cancel operations: Russian hackers attacked the health care system in Britain
Hospitals of the Royal College, Guy and St. Thomas were injured. The British media confirms that attack sources are likely to be in Russia. This happened after experts say that the cyberattack can take several weeks. In addition to the abolition of potentially vital operations, evil also caused chaos in general practitioners in six London areas. It is envisaged that the purpose of the attack was the IT system of Synnovis, which serves the pathoanatomical laboratories of the National Health Service.
A high -ranking source has reported Health Service Journal (HSJ) that access to the results of pathoanatomical studies can now take "Week, not Days". Earlier it was reported that the hospital staff is forced to cancel key surgery or send patients to other institutions in the shortest possible time, and the attack was particularly touched by blood transfusion. Hospitals, among other things, had to cancel transplant surgery, including children's hospitals.
The grandmother of the 18-month-old patient confirmed that the kidney transplant her grandson had been postponed indefinitely. "These operations are carried out only once a month, so now they will have to wait until July," the woman said. Another patient, 70-year-old Oliver Duson, was preparing for surgery from 6th Monday on June 3 at Royal Brompton's hospital, when about 12:30 the surgeon told him that the surgery would not happen.
"The staff of the department seemed to not know what happened, just many patients were told to go home and wait for a new appointment," the patient said. A representative of the Royal College Hospital in London confirmed that the institution had been attacking: some departments were unable to connect to their main server. The e -mail sent to clinics staff is that doctors should appoint key analyzes, including blood tests and smears, only if they are "clinically urgent".