Hospital El Cruce takes its website offline following a severe cyberattack

Hospital El Cruce takes its website offline following a severe cyberattack 1

A severe blow to Argentina’s public healthcare system has been dealt by the ransomware group Medusa, which, in recent days, through one of its affiliates, carried out a significant attack on the IT networks of the Hospital de Alta Complejidad El Cruce “Néstor Kirchner” (Hospital El Cruce), located in Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires Province. The attack resulted in the compromise and loss of over 760GB of sensitive data. The hospital’s official website is currently offline, taken down by their IT department to manage the incident.

The ransom demanded by Medusa for the deletion of the stolen files is $200,000 in Bitcoin. The group has set the ransom payment deadline for February 6.

In the file tree published by Medusa on its blog within the Tor network, over 650,000 lines of data were identified. Among the file names listed, thousands reference PHI (Protected Health Information), such as diagnostic images and laboratory tests, linked to the names and surnames of patients who, over the years, have received medical care at the Hospital de Alta Complejidad El Cruce “Néstor Kirchner.”

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Additionally, the exposed data includes PII (Personally Identifiable Information), such as dates of birth, passport numbers, driver’s licenses, full addresses, and other sensitive information.

This article will be updated as soon as further details about the case become available.