What happened to the vaccine data in Lazio? Facts and reactions
All the details on the cyber attack on the Ced of the Lazio Region causing, among other things, the blocking of anti Covid vaccinations.
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
D'AMATO (LAZIO REGION): "NO DATA HAS BEEN STOLEN"
IT IS NECESSARY TO ACTIVATE THE CYBER AGENCY
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.