Cyberciminals hacked AIIMS’ servers, encrypted 1TB-plus hospital data: MoS Chandrasekhar

India’s largest medical institution, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), was hit by a ransomware attack late last year. The attack paralysed computer-run services at the government-run hospital for over 15 days. The hospital was forced to switch to manual mode. With the server down, the outpatient and inpatient digital hospital services, including smart lab, billing, report generation and the appointment system, were badly affected.

The union minister for state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has shared a written response with the Parliament on the AIIMs attack based on the probe being carried out by various government agencies.