Saint-Gaudens hospital was targeted by an attack on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, with infected servers and a message demanding a ransom in bitcoin.
The care of patients continues despite everything in the establishment, even if the hospital asks the Samu to redirect patients to other structures.
The hospital of Saint-Gaudens, in Haute-Garonne, was the victim of a cyber attack, causing the closure of its IT services, but the care of patients continues, he told AFP on Friday.
Thursday, around 4 am, the computer attack infected the servers of the hospital center, "with a message asking to pay a ransom in bitcoin", specifies the Saint-Gaudens prosecutor Christophe Amunzateguy.
"Everything is very long"
"From yesterday (Thursday) morning, we decided to shut down the servers, to prevent the spread of the computer virus," explains Stéphanie Baux, director of economic services and logistics.
"We shut down all the computers and telephony, which are connected, so all the computers are off now."
Since then, telephony has been brought back into service, but not computers.
Main consequence: "Everything is much longer."
Despite the shutdown of the servers, the care of patients continues, ensures the hospital, but the administrative services work in writing.
"When we need a result from a lab, it will arrive by fax or in writing," continues Stéphanie Baux.
Dax hospital already attacked
For the time being, the hospital is asking Samu to redirect patients to other hospital structures, while the cyberattack is under control.
"The situation will last beyond the weekend because a precise analysis must be made of all our computer stations, all our servers, and a safe restart be carried out", explains Stéphanie Baux.
The Saint-Gaudens hospital has lodged a complaint which will be forwarded "to the Paris prosecutor's office, which has a section specializing in cyberattacks", indicates Christophe Amunzateguy.
This computer ransomware attack echoes the one suffered by the hospital in Dax, in the Landes, in February, which had also disrupted its functioning.
On March 31, another cyberattack targeting the Pierre Fabre group, based in the Tarn, caused the shutdown of a large part of pharmaceutical and cosmetic production.