As countries around Europe enact drastic measures to try to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the main hospital in Brno has been forced to cancel all planned operations and farm out acute patients to other hospitals after falling victim to a major cyber attack.
At present, the spokesperson said, NÚKIB cybersecurity specialists are working alongside police and hospital management to resolve the incident.
Hospital director Jaroslav Štěrba told Czech media that some key clinical systems were working, but the hospital had lost the ability to transfer information from these systems to its database system. He said he hoped it would be possible to quickly identify the nature…