French Oncology Hospital Suspends Treatments for 4 Days after Ransomware Attack

March 27, 2023

INCIDENT

Saint-Jean Oncology and Radiotherapy Center was the victim of a ransomware-type cyberattack affecting its Saint-Doulchard and Moulins sites. This paralyzed its information system. It affected all data, in particular patient files (administrative data, medical and technical data).

The Center was forced to suspend its chemotherapy and radiotherapy activities from November 15 to 18, 202 . For these services access to the computerized patient file is essential (ballistics, assays, reports, etc.).

Incident Date

November 15, 2022

Location

France

Estimated Cost

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy activities suspended for 4 days

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified

Industries

Healthcare

Impacts

IT