On Monday, Health authorities of the Canadian province of Newfoundland have reported that the internal system of healthcare has been disrupted. There are possibilities of a cyber attack against the healthcare system. Because of the attack, several appoints have been canceled.
At present, findings of the attack are underway to understand the level and the nature of the attack, with reference to what Health Minister John Haggie told reporters.
"This led to progressive failure of what's been described to me as the brain of the data center and a loss of functionality and systems across the regional health authorities," he said, adding that authorities have adopted contingency measures.
In the wake of the attack, a significant impact could be seen across the healthcare system in the remote Atlantic province.
According to the Chief Executive Officer David Diamond of the Eastern Regional Health Authority, the emergency department which hit hard was working as per its routine on Monday but other appointments that have been canceled would be rescheduled for another day.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a ransomware attack, which is a type of malicious software designed to lock and encrypt the victim’s computer files and then demands a ransom to unlock and decrypt the system was behind the disruption of healthcare services, but Haggie did not confirm the given information.
