Server before border- Weeks before China attempted to alter the status quo on the Tawang sector of the border, Chinese hackers had targeted AIIMS Delhi’s server.
- The government’s analysts have traced the source of the cyber attack on AIIMS server to Chinese hackers. Five of the 100 servers had been infiltrated by the hackers. Compromised servers’ data have now been successfully retrieved.
The attack- AIIMS Delhi first reported a failure in its servers on November 23. Two of the analysts deployed to look after the servers' securities have also been suspended for the alleged breach of cyber security.
Servers restored- AIIMS said, "The eHospital data has been restored on the servers. The network is being sanitised before the services can be restored. The process is taking some time due to the volume of data and the large number of servers/computers for the hospital services. Measures are being taken for cyber security."
Not just AIIMS- The ICMR website faced about 6,000 attempts of cyber attack on November 30 from an IP address of Hong Kong.
Increased frequency- Nearly 1.9 million cyber-attacks have been recorded on the Indian healthcare network this year, especially from Pakistan, China and Vietnam.
Meanwhile…- The border standoff and cyberattacks have happened when China is grappling with a huge Covid-19 surge, acute shortage of medicines in stores, and a growing number of doctors and nurses catching the virus. But they have been asked to keep working, according to medical staff and social media posts.
- China's top health body National Health Commission has said the true scale of coronavirus infections in the country is now "impossible" to track.
- Chinese social media is awash with comments linking China’s Covid problem to its attempt to target India. Several of them called it their government’s “diversionary” tactic.
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