PARIS (Reuters) – Mafia-type organisations, often based in eastern Europe, are likely to have been behind a recent wave of cyber attacks on French hospitals, rather than foreign powers, said the French minister for digital technology Cedric O on Thursday.
“Concerning the hospitals, in all likelihood it is not foreign powers, but rather Mafia-type organisations – often situated in eastern countries but not just limited to there – who are looking for money,” Cedric O told France 2 television.
Cedric O added that the situation at French hospitals had stabilised following the cyber attacks earlier this year, but hospitals at Dax and Villefranche-sur-Saône were still working with pen and paper after their computer systems were hit.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Alex Richardson)
