A cyberattack was triggered on the night of Friday October 4 to Saturday October 5. For the moment, it only affects the Rennes mutual clinic La Sagesse, in Brittany. While the attack is contained, the group’s other establishments are operating in degraded IT mode.
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The alert was given on the night of Friday October 4 to Saturday October 5.
A large-scale cyberattack is still paralyzing a Breton clinic, the Rennes mutual clinic La Sagesse, the number one target of the attack.
This clinic belongs to the Hospi Grand Ouest group which owns eight other health establishments in Brittany and Pays de la Loire.
At the Sagesse clinic, a crisis unit was set up in order to contain the attack and prevent it from spreading to other establishments in the group.
As a result, preventive measures were taken at the eight other establishments which have since been operating “in degraded IT mode”.
In Pays de la Loire, four establishments are affected by the prevention measures put in place.
Two are located in Loire-Atlantique: this is the cEstuaire mutualist clinic in Saint-Nazaire and the Jules Verne clinic in Nantes.
The two other establishments concerned are located in Vendée. These are the Villa Notre Dame follow-up care and rehabilitation center in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and the Sud Vendée clinic in Fontenay-le-Comte.
“It’s about protecting our information system. We can no longer use our IT tools in the same way, explains Nathalie Urvoas, communications manager for the Hospi Grand Ouest group.
On site, the teams no longer use the internet and favor ‘old-fashioned’ work and reception with paper files.
Nathalie UrvoasCommunications manager for the Hospi Grand Ouest Group
The latter specifies that patients will be informed gradually. And that administrative services and executives are hard at work putting in place a business continuity action plan.
“We will continue to ensure the care and safety of hospitalized patients, and each service will be reorganized on a case-by-case basis.”
In certain establishments where surgery is performed, certain interventions could be partially unscheduled.
“Our IT tools being in preventive degraded mode, we have less visibility, by doing paper planning, it takes more time to organize or reorganize.
It is possible that in certain establishments we will be obliged to reduce intervention schedules
Nathalie UrvoasCommunications manager for the Hospi Grand Ouest Group
The communications manager also specifies that the group’s cybersecurity experts are also hard at work with two missions:
The first, to ensure prevention in other establishments. And the second, in parallel, is to find the origin of the cyberattack and understand the hackers’ operating methods in order to contain it as quickly as possible.
The group plans to communicate officially this Sunday afternoon to provide a more precise update establishment by establishment.
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