Paris (AFP)
Ramsay-Générale de Santé, the French leader in private hospitalization, confirmed Monday that AFP managed to revive its IT infrastructure after suffering a computer attack last week, which affected 120 institutions in France.
"This Monday morning, most of our computer systems were revived, our IT infrastructure is restored, and our priority now is to ensure the stability of these tools in each of our facilities," said the spokesperson. from the group to AFP.
Ramsay also confirmed that "no personal data was stolen during this attack".
The computer virus had affected the "messaging and other business applications" used by the group in the management of its institutions, blocking its computer system and forcing its employees to "go back to paper and pencil to manage the schedules", had- she explained Wednesday.
The computer attack had not degraded patient safety or continuity of care in the original Ramsay Group's 120 facilities, according to a spokeswoman for France's number one private hospital. The 20 establishments of the Capio group, acquired by Ramsay in 2018, were not concerned.
Born in July 2015 from the merger of the Générale de Santé and Ramsay Santé groups, Ramsay-Générale de Santé covers the entire healthcare chain: medicine-surgery-obstetrics, oncology, follow-up and rehabilitation care and home-based care.
In 2017, the British public health service, NHS, fell victim to the global attack on NotPetya ransomware. This had spread to 150 countries, paralyzing the majority of Ukrainian banks, the Russian energy giant Rosneft or the French group Saint-Gobain.
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