The Hospital Clínica de Barcelona, which was hit by a cyberattack in early March that disrupted its operations, is still open and is troubling Catalan authorities. After the Mossos d’Esquadra blocked the pirate gates earlier this week, the hackers threatened on Thursday to release more stolen data.
In specific, they alert that “in the near future” they would publish information on patients with infectious diseases and on the use of experimental drugs on the elderly, conducted by the Barcelona centre. The ‘hackers’, collectively known as Ransom House, have already released thousands of controversial data from hospitals on the first ‘deep web’.
In a declaration, the hackers revealed that the events would take place over a period of days that would “very harass the police” and they thanked the Mossos for blocking their site, which they said was part of the stepping in.
Cybercriminals have already taken three to four gigabytes of data that includes the identities and health information of patients, individual staff and staffing agencies, and center providers.
Movement before the Mossos regarding Clinic hackers
Thursday’s announcement came two days after the Mossos d’Esquadra confirmed that they had “accessed information” in a cyberattack. They had previously announced that Catalan police had launched a project of operation against the internal portal.
From the beginning, one of Redemption House’s key steps was to encrypt data from the Virtual Center of Services, so that patient data could not be taken, new data added, or existing data re-written. $4.5 million to release the data has been demanded from the hackers.
Criminals always act like criminals. First without operational capacity they exit the hospital and secondly they demand money from menaces through the data”, Tomás Roy, director of the Agency of Catalonia Cybersecurity, confirmed in the statements to TV3.
