Cyber-attack on Antwerp hospital in Belgium disrupts care
A hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, suffered an IT system outage linked to a cyber-attack. In the aftermath of the attack, critically ill patients were transferred to other hospitals and the intake of ambulances was disrupted.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- IT system outage; transfer of critically ill patients and disruption of ambulance intake
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack
- Location
- Belgium
Timeline
- A cyber-attack and IT system outage at an Antwerp hospital were reported.
- It was reported that critically ill patients had been transferred and ambulances turned away in the aftermath of the cyber-attack.
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