A COVID-19 testing centre is hampered by crooks in Europe

The Brno University Hospital in the city of Brno has been hampered by Cyber Security on Friday. This incident was happened right in the middle when already 140 confirmed infections and around 4800 people in the quarantine in the small central Europe country.

However, the Hospital officials have not revealed about the nature of the security breach, the incident resulted into postpones urgent surgical interventions and re-route new acute patients to nearby St Anne’s University Hospital, as per local media reports.

This Hospital hosts one of the 18 laboratories that Czech Republic uses for testing for the newly outbreak Coronavirus. It did 20 + test since the outbreak. It was forced to shut down its entire IT network including the incident and other two hospital branches – the Children’s Hospital and the Maternity Hospital.

The infection took root around 5 am in the morning, the local time. A patient in the hospital Peter Gramantick and a security researcher with Sucuri told this via email today. Gramantik said, “The hospital public announcement system started to repeat the message that all personnel should immediately shut down all computers due to ‘cybernetic security. This message was repeated like every 30 minutes. “Around 8 a.m. there was another public announcement that all the surgeries are cancelled.

Following to the onset of the incident, the team from NCSC or Czech National Cyber Security Centre, NCOZ or Crezh police and hospital IT staff have been working on recover the hospital IT networks.

Basic operations are still possible at the hospital and the patients are still being investigated, despite the attack. However, the media data collected by the labs system are stuck there and cannot be recorded in databases. Recipes are written by hand or typed.