New Delhi: After AIIMS, another cyber attack on the Indian healthcare industry resulted in online sale of personal information of over 1.5 lakh patients at a hospital in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu and Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi. CloudSEK claims to have made the information public through various online platforms including Telegram channels and some cybercrime forums. CloudSEK is a Singapore-based contextual AI startup that predicts cyber threats.
Safdarjung Hospital officials claimed that there was a cyber attack on the hospital. However the damage was still not as bad as what had happened to AIIMS. “Internet was attacked. In November, our server was also unavailable for a day, but no data was lost. IT took care of it and NIC brought the system back online”, Safdarjung Hospital Medical Director Dr. BL Sherwal said.
According to the forum’s research, the data available for sale is data from patients between 2007 and 2011. CloudSEK also claims that the data comes from a database of the Sri Saran Medical Center and includes pertinent information such as date of birth, address. Name of the parents and details of the doctor. ,Also read: No money in bank account? You can still withdraw cash up to 3 times your salary from banks like SBI, ICICI; This way,
However, Dr. Palanisamy, president of the hospital, claims that no patient’s medical information was compromised as the facility has new database software and a new service provider. ,Also read: SBI will close this great loan scheme; check if this will affect you,
Palanisamy said, “The hospital does not maintain any such electronic health record. For a year, Three Cube IT Lab acted as our service provider. We used their software to expand our database. Transferred to a new company four years ago after using.”
Rahul Sasi, founder of CloudSEK, claims that he does not yet know if data from later time periods has been affected.