What happened to the vaccine data in Lazio? Facts and reactions

2 August 20213 years ago babelfish

All the details on the cyber attack on the Ced of the Lazio Region causing, among other things, the blocking of anti Covid vaccinations.

Reservations for vaccines are still blocked in Lazio after the hacker attack that hit the Region yesterday.

The attack that has been underway for at least 24 hours comes from abroad and has targeted the Ced of the Lazio Region which has also deactivated those of the Health Lazio portal and the vaccination network. It is the first step in the investigations that the postal police are carrying out in coordination with the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, reports Ansa .

The hackers – still inside the system – would have managed to infiltrate by entering the profile of a network administrator and activating the so-called 'cryptolocker', which encrypts data. Therefore, all the files of the Data Processing Center would be blocked.

“The vaccination campaign is proceeding and will continue regularly, there has been no interruption and there will not be in the next few days. The hacker attack failed to block the Lazio vaccination campaign ", said the councilor for Health and Social and Health Integration, Alessio D'Amato, after the Covid 19 crisis unit of the Lazio Region he had spoken of a " powerful hacker attack on the regional Ced ".

And in the early afternoon of today, the President of the Region Nicola Zingaretti specified that "The regional health data are safe, as are the financial data" but the situation remains serious.

The vaccination therefore continues but who has been injected with the first or second dose of the vaccine between yesterday and today when will they be able to receive the data for the purpose of the Green pass ? Within 72 hours, the staff of the Lazio vaccination points informs us. They are manually uploading the data to a new platform in the Region where the previous data on the first doses should also flow.

All the details on the hacker attack on the vaccine booking system in the Lazio Region.

THE ATTACK IS STILL IN PROGRESS TO THE VACCINE BOOKING SYSTEM IN LAZIO

Yesterday at 10 am the Lazio Region communicated the digital attack in progress to the Ced by means of ransomware.

“Almost all files in the Data Processing and Vaccine Reservation Center have been blocked. The system is turned off, it cannot be turned on again to avoid spreading the virus further. The attacks are still ongoing, ”Zingaretti added today.

According to what Agi has learned, the ransomware that hit the computer systems of the Lazio Region would have infected "both the production areas and the data backup areas", explained other sources.

ACTION STARTED FROM ABROAD

At the moment, the geographical area from which the malware that infected the regional servers originated has not yet been circumscribed.

But according to press sources, the hacker attack came from abroad. Sources cited by the Agi have specified that the attack "seems to have come from Germany, but of this there is no certainty".

REDEMPTION ASKED, POSTAL POLICE INVESTIGATIONS

The Postal Police will deliver a first report on the hacker attack suffered by the Lazio Region to the prosecutor's office in the next few hours. According to what was learned by the Agi , the perpetrators of the attack, perhaps an international organization, made a ransom request in bitcoin last night. Checks are underway by Postal investigators.

D'AMATO (LAZIO REGION): "NO DATA HAS BEEN STOLEN"

“The vaccination campaign does not stop and yesterday 50,000 vaccines were administered, despite the most serious cyber attack suffered. Up to 13 August there are over 500 thousand citizens who have their reservations and can go to the administration centers on the date and time indicated above ". The councilor for Health and Social-Sanitary Integration of the Lazio Region, Alessio D'Amato, writes in a note, adding: “The technicians are working to safely reactivate the new reservations and no data has been stolen. We are in constant contact with the commissioner to ensure that users who get vaccinated have the green pass in the usual way ".

The hackers who attacked the Ced of the Lazio Region would not have had access to the health history of the millions of citizens who are included in the database of the regional health system. It is learned from qualified security sources according to which the attack, as regards the health part, hit the Cup booking system and the vaccination booking system. There would not have been a transfer of health data, even if the pirates would still have come into possession of various personal data. The IT infrastructure concerning the budget and civil protection would not have been touched.

IT IS NECESSARY TO ACTIVATE THE CYBER AGENCY

"It is the third attack after those of 2020 at the San Raffaele in Milan and at the Spallanzani in Rome, at the forefront of the fight against the virus" highlights the Corriere . "And this is why intelligence also investigates with the Cyber Security Unit, which depends on the Dis, to which the Copasir president Adolfo Urso asked for information so that" the Committee can make its assessments: it is urgent to activate the Security Agency cybernetics"".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/che-cosa-e-successo-ai-dati-sui-vaccini-nel-lazio/ on Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:38:57 +0000.