Breaches and incidents

Sant Parmanand Hospital and NKS Super Speciality Hospital (Delhi, India): servers hacked, NKS moves to manual OPD and IPD

Digital Health News reports both north Delhi hospitals’ servers were hacked late on the night of 10 to 11 Jun.

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What happened

  • Digital Health News reports both north Delhi hospitals’ servers were hacked late on the night of 10 to 11 Jun; NKS said the attack “severely disrupted” its servers and access to digital patient information, and switched OPD and IPD to manual processes. Patient, financial and administrative files were reported compromised.
  • Root cause: not disclosed.
  • Attacker: unidentified.
  • Response: Delhi Police FIR under IT Act section 66 (DCP North Raja Banthia); Sant Parmanand made no statement at the time.