German cyber security chief fears hackers could target hospitals
BERLIN (Reuters) – German hospitals could even be at elevated hazard from hackers, the top of the nation’s cyber security firm acknowledged on Saturday, following two high-profile digital assaults this month on the Irish nicely being service and a U.S. gasoline pipeline.
Ireland’s nicely being service operator shut down its IT strategies last Friday to protect them from a “important” ransomware assault, crippling diagnostic suppliers, disrupting COVID-19 testing and forcing the cancellation of many appointments.
German clinics have been targeted by a sequence of cyber assaults over the previous 5 years, and Arne Schoenbohm, president of the BSI federal cyber security firm, instructed Zeit Online newspaper he seen “the next hazard at hospitals”.
Earlier in May, the 5,500-mile (8,850-km) U.S. Colonial Pipeline Co system closed after among the disruptive cyber assaults on doc, stopping hundreds and hundreds of barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet gasoline from …