New Delhi: The server of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi was hacked by the Chinese, revealed the top government sources.
As per reports, out of 100 servers (40 physical and 60 virtual), five physical servers were successfully infiltrated by the hackers. However, details of lakhs of patients at the premier hospital has now been retrieved with timely intervention.
The sources informed that the first layer of the server attack has been cracked and the two locations zeroed in by the investigating teams are China’s Zhenan and Hong Kong.
The hackers were using VPN to mask their IP addresses, sources said.
In November, services at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were badly affected as the server used by the hospital was down for close to nine hours. A statement released by AIIMS said the server was down due to a possible ransomware attack.
