He Hospital Clinic of Barcelona has confirmed this afternoon that ransom house, the criminal organization that on March 5 perpetrated a cyberattack against this health center, has made a new leak and has published all the stolen data so. Clínic sources confirm this news to EL PERIÓDICO, advanced by ‘Vilaweb’, and assure that the hospital is still studying “what types of data are involved”. “We remember that the full or partial publication of the data is a crime”, notify the Clinic.
RansomHouse hackers tried to extort to the center in March by asking him for a $4.5 million ransom to release the 4.4 terabytes of data affected, something that the Generalitat rejected. If I didn’t pay, they threatened, they would post on the dark web (or dark internet) all the data they stole from the health facility, including confidential information of patients, workers, managers and suppliers (names, addresses, payslips, medical records), but also clinical trials for cancer and autoimmune diseases, fields in which the Clínic is pointer and of those that the hospital has various patents.
Now RansomHouse, according to ‘Vilaweb’, has updated its website on the ‘dark web’, where there is free access to all this information. The Clinic confirms this information, but it does not specify what data it is. “Since the first publication, on March 30, we already said that new data would be published. We will not comment further on this.” Clínic sources point out. The hospital and the Cybersecurity Agency of Catalonia They continue to work “coordinated”.
On March 21, the center acknowledged in a release published on its website (but which it did not send to the press) that “the confidentiality of the data of patients and workers could have been compromised”. In addition, according to sources in this newspaper, what worried the hospital the most was the publication of those clinical trials in cancer and autoimmune diseases, although the center never entered to specify what type of data had been stolen.
From that moment on, a war broke out between the Mossos d’Esquadra and RansomHouse. The efforts of the Catalan police to neutralize the impact of the cyber attack they sped up. The police authorities assured in March that this leak of data “extremely sensitive” It would repeat itself in the coming weeks.
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Faced with this persistent threat, the Mossos looked for ways to stop the leaks poured into the ‘dark web‘. On April 4, the police force managed to paralyze the web page used by Ransom House after conducting a cyber attack distributed from denial of service (DDoS), a method that is based on launching a avalanche of requests that a computer server cannot process in order to force its collapse.
During the first weeks of the attack, the Clínic toilets were forced to work with a pen and paper due to the paralysis of the entire Wi-Fi network and the Internet.