Region Skåne victim of hacker attack - Skånskan.se

Region Skåne has suffered a hacker attack that makes it right now, waiting times of up to an hour for medical advice.

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class=”dateline site-color”> Malmo. An overload of Region Skåne’s website on Wednesday, causing long waits for medical advice in the county. There were also problems with pick up and drop e-prescriptions.

– We have had a denial of service attack in which a lot of computers have attempted to enter our website at once, says Thomas Nilsson at Region Skåne’s press service said.

No unauthorized person shall have access to records or information on patients as a result of the attack. On Wednesday evening, the problems were solved.

– Everything should work like it should, now we try to get our IT supplier to increase capacity and ward off any new attacks.

On Tuesday Skånetrafiken subjected to a similar attack. Both events are reported to the police.

Even Kavlinge council website was subjected to extensive sabotage. And for the second time in the space of six months.

– We took steps last time to deal with disturbances. They continued for some time after but subsided later. Evidently this was not enough because we now have a load attacked again, and this time bigger than ever, says Kavlinge Municipality Secretary Mats Svedberg.

On Tuesday began disturbances on the website begins to escalate on Wednesday. The website was closed at lunchtime down completely and will until the technical measures taken to remain so as not to disturb the internal computer traffic.
– Municipality stands or falls obviously not with the website, but residents have obviously become accustomed to uträtt lot of cases and finding information via the website. So it is clear, to some extent affected the business, says Mats Svedberg.
Techniques consultants work together now to stop the hacker attack, known as a DDoS attack. Briefly, it means that the website at the same time is called from many places than it can handle.

– Like last time, there is no as heard from or taken responsibility for this. But of course, we ask ourselves: why Kavlinge municipality? asks Mats Svedberg.
What makes Kävlinge now to protect the website?
– We see obvious seriously this is happening and the consultants that we have taken the help of now looking at what we can do. Last time we reported the police attack, but the question is if we do it now. For whom should we notify the police – the internet?