AIIMS Server Down: Delhi cop denies INR 200 crore ransom demand

Earlier reports said that the hackers are demanding INR 200 crore from the AIIMS administration, now the Delhi police have denied these reports.

Delhi police have denied the reports of hackers demanding INR 200 crore for providing the key to the files encrypted by them.

An FIR has been filed for extortion and cyberterrorism on the complaint of AIIMS. But "no ransom demand, as being quoted by certain sections of the media, has been brought to our notice by the AIIMS authorities," a police spokesperson said, as reported by TOI.

Services being managed manually

Today is the sixth day of the ransomware attack, and the services in the emergency, outpatient, in-patient and laboratory wings continue to be managed manually.

Several VIPs including former prime ministers, ministers, bureaucrats, and judges, had their data stored in the AIIMS server and the ransom attack has triggered fears that the data of lakhs of patients including these VIPs may have been compromised. "The internet services are blocked on hospital computers," an official said.

AIIMS network is being sanitised, and antivirus solutions for servers and computers have been planned. 

The background

Five days ago, AIIMS Delhi came under attack by cybercriminals which affected the health services as it has frozen AIIMS' e-hospital system including appointments and registration at outpatient departments , billing at inpatient departments, laboratory report generation, and smart lab, among others.

This is resulting in long queues and errors in handling emergency cases.

After the attack, multiple agencies like Delhi Police, the Centre’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the Ministry of Home Affairs, and even the National Investigation Agency joined the probe.

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