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A hospital in southwest France has seen some of its IT systems paralysed by a “ransomware” cyberattack, its management said Tuesday, the third such incident in the last month.<\/p>\n

The 320-bed facility in Oloron-Sainte-Marie near the Pyrenees mountains was hit by the attack on Monday, with screens displaying a demand in English for $50,000 in Bitcoin. <\/p>\n

Hospital workers have had to revert to working with pens and paper, since digital patient records are not available.<\/p>\n

The management system, used to monitor medicine stocks and other supplies, has also been affected at a time when the hospital is taking part in vaccination efforts against COVID-19.<\/p>\n

“We might get our systems back in 48 hours or in three months,” hospital director Frederic Lecenne told local news<\/a>paper La Republique des Pyrenees.<\/p>\n

He said personnel had disconnected some computers from the internet and the hospital’s network to try to limit the spread of the ransomware. <\/p>\n

In February, hospitals in Dax in southwest France and in Villefranche-sur-Sa\u00f4ne in the southeastern Rhone region were subjected to ransomware attacks, while in 2019 a hospital in northern Rouen was also hit.<\/p>\n

“Ransomware” attacks see criminals infiltrate and paralyse a target’s IT systems, then demand payments in order to restore them.\n <\/p>\n\n

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