Czech Hospital Testing COVID-19 Suffers Cyberattack
Return To ArticleThe Brno University Hospital in the city of Brno, Czech Republic, has been hit by a cyberattack right in the middle of a COVID-19 outbreak that is picking up steam in the small central European country.
Hospital officials have not revealed the nature of the security breach; however, the incident was deemed severe enough to postpone urgent surgical interventions, and re-route new acute patients to nearby St. Anne’s University Hospital, local media reported.
The hospital was forced to shut down its entire IT network during the incident, and two other of the hospital’s branches, the Children’s Hospital and the Maternity Hospital, were also impacted.
