Greenland hospital system impacted by cyberattack

Greenland officials did not respond to requests for comment about whether it was a ransomware attack, but in a statement, explained that the healthcare system’s digital network crashed because of the incident.

They were forced to restart all IT systems and servers, meaning hospital workers cannot access any patient medical records.

The health service’s services are therefore severely limited and increased waiting time must be expected and some will experience going in vain at agreed times. Acute inquiries will of course continue to be met and you can contact the health service by phone.

The technical analysis currently show that there has been no damage to citizens’ data and that they have not been copied, but investigations into the extent of the cyber attack are still ongoing. The health service will report when operations are normalized.

A government spokesman said that the attack started on May 9 and may have connections to a previous attack in April based on an examination of the technical footprints left on the network.

The other day, a huge data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of nearly 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and 60,000 employees.