Czech Republic: Hackers hacked into the system of three Prague polyclinics, e-mails

The hackers attacked three private polyclinics in the center of Prague, the Deník N server told Tuesday. The internet attack on the company Poliklinika IPP was confirmed by its executive and also by the National Office for Cyber ​​and Information Security (NÚKIB).

The mentioned three polyclinics fall under the company Poliklinika IPP . "It is true, but I do not want to comment further. The whole event is now being investigated and I do not want to endanger what is happening around confirmed the attack by Lenka Šmídová, executive of the IPP Polyclinic. Whether the perpetrators demanded money, she did not want to comment.

She said, it simply came to our notice then. Above me is the owner of the company, so this did not go through me.

NÚKIB spokesman Jiří Táborský said, at this point, I can confirm that we have received an incident report at this medical facility and are currently working on it. We will not comment on this anymore.

.The daily N writes that, according to its information, the attack is not related to the vulnerability of Microsoft Exchange mail servers, which hackers recently used to attack the Prague City Hall or the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

According to information from security companies, cyber attacks on medical facilities are on the rise. In the Czech Republic last year, hackers attacked, for example, the hospital in Benešov, the Ostrava and Olomouc teaching hospitals or the Karlovy Vary Regional Hospital. At the beginning of this year, a small domestic hospital faced an attack via the Internet. Last year's survey of the Ministry of Health among more than 160 hospitals in the Czech Republic found that they would need to invest more than four billion crowns in cyber security by 2023.