Attacked by cyber criminals
WITH hospitals and health-care organisations around the country already under severe strain due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they are now also having to fend off dangerous cyber attacks.
In the last few months, several of South Africa’s leading hospitals and health-care organisations have been targeted by a rising wave of ransom-ware attacks by cyber criminals.
Last June, hackers targeted the Life Healthcare hospital chain, which has 66 hospitals in South Africa.
The attack inflicted widespread damage, with the hospital chain admitting that “the security incident” had affected admissions systems, business processing systems,
