“Black Suit” hackers hold SA’s Health Service hostage: Lives on the line

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A ransomware attack on South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) is delaying the processing of millions of blood tests and imperiling the lives of an untold number of people. BizNews speaks to Chris Bateman, a former long-time News Editor of the South African Medical Journal - after he was contacted by the Eastern European-sounding middleman of the “Black Suit” hackers. The “middleman” made dire threats if the NHLS didn’t enter into negotiation with the hackers. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old girl is dying in Groote Schuur Hospital because her illness can’t be diagnosed without a blood test. There have been similar attacks in countries outside Russia…which leads to the suspicion that the hackers are Russian.
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@badhabit6140 21 күн бұрын

How is this hack not on every majour news outlets?

@tertiusferreira4753 21 күн бұрын

My mom has cancer and had to redo all of her blood work because of this kak. Hope these p&@+£ hackers are found and dealt with asap.

@6ftS 21 күн бұрын

the problem isnt the hackers... there will always be hackers. the problem is the utterly incompetent morons that has been entrusted with our critical information systems. There are more holes in this country's official data infrastructure than a swiss cheese...

@truth-Hurts375 21 күн бұрын

Calm down before you also got cancer.....it's out of your hands !!!!

@johnward7619 21 күн бұрын

BRICS for the win man... if only you knew whats going on in the background.

@talloolahmoon 21 күн бұрын

@@johnward7619what is going on

@johanpretorius2804 21 күн бұрын

Simple to understand, people appointed in strategic positions within IT support not to be trusted with mission critical IT support..

@mikenortje3023 21 күн бұрын

Who was the IT manager ?

@dianek1220 21 күн бұрын

Why is this not mainstream news?! Thnks to BizNews for highlighting this, what a disaster!

@neelsfer 21 күн бұрын

Why don't they have data backups from the previous 24hrs, that can be reinstalled on another server and web domain, within a day?

@wellinever1558 21 күн бұрын

Its just a disaster more people will die than covid

@JVan-ic6ic 21 күн бұрын

Would honesty be a question for big data buffs. But the exact same thing has happened in the uk within the last 2 months or so

@farinatty 21 күн бұрын

The backups were hacked into before the main attack.

@gracecollins8415 21 күн бұрын

These days why critical systems do not have 100% alternate off-site redundancy has got me beat.

@allanhutton1123 21 күн бұрын

They do but ransomware is date activated, so backup are normally infected also from months back. I had this happen to my company a multi billion dollar company even our 3 month backup on restore were triggered. Nightmare.

@christinefinniss6263 21 күн бұрын

Wow 😳 So scary.

@greydout 21 күн бұрын

Ransomware they all want money to decrypt files.

@horse.395 21 күн бұрын

What next .🤬

@garthbrook3557 21 күн бұрын

MONEY!

@GD-be8zf 21 күн бұрын

The thing Mr. Bateman doesn't mention is biopsy and operation histology results for patients with cancer. No one is able to access histology results so all Oncology services are crippled as they can't access biopsy results describing the type of cancer or if a person even has cancer

@wellinever1558 21 күн бұрын

Yes exactly its going to cause massive deaths

@attiestadler3328 21 күн бұрын

Thanks to BizNews for giving this story airtime. It's a public health disaster happening as we speak! It should be headline news every day until it is resolved with maximun resource dedicated to it. There should be an inquery to determine if dequate data security back-up protocols were in place and were being adhered to.

@talloolahmoon 21 күн бұрын

Wow NHI

@theresasmuts9896 17 күн бұрын

Shocking 😮😶

@Secor_Enterprises 21 күн бұрын

I was charged and suspended over the NHLS application, i was not working for them,i was at Dept of health Gauteng-IT Technician....they been useless for a couple of years

@badhabit6140 21 күн бұрын

Is it the same people from the UK hack? If so, y'all knew about this security vulnerability for weeks ahead. There was a lot of time to prevent this

@janineroux2398 21 күн бұрын

Panyaza was just mentioning the importance of IT in the mefical field in a recent interview... Although it had nothing to do with this particular incident, as I understood.. I was surprised, as I had not thought about it much

@ffamaya2424 20 күн бұрын

Anyone else notice the spider on his ceiling 😮

@JarrydAlexei 16 күн бұрын

Some big factual errors are being made here. All tests are still being done, as the automated machines are still running and recording results for patients. The problem currently is laboratories cannot digitally register the tests that are requested (so that is being done manually) and cannot upload the results onto the laboratory information system (so that is being done manually). These results are all still accessible but it is very very difficult to have them communicated individually. The current situation does not mean that tests are not being done - it means there are massive delays in getting results out/making results accessible to the treating clinicians. It is unfortunate that (a) a doctor and/or (b) a doctor who works for the NHLS was not interviewed, because despite the interviewee working in the space (and I respect his contribution and status), there is a lot of nuance that he lacks, and it makes for information and understanding that is easily misconstrued. The NHLS is a massive and capable system and is and has made contingency plans to mitigate what is an attack on innocent human lives.

@user-nb7wb6sv9x 19 күн бұрын

Besides crippling the system, what is their primary objective, and don't say 💰

@chukpic 21 күн бұрын

Bad interview and misinformed on the subject of hacking, very little to no useful information here

@cgoosen 21 күн бұрын

Black hat not black suit is the correct term.

@garycburn 20 күн бұрын

Is this maybe from high up to cover up something

@phumelelomthimude8082 21 күн бұрын

Clearly you want to blame Russia which makes me suspect the USA.

@giselasimon9943 20 күн бұрын

So we cant be tested for some sort of avian flu either

@user-rh7th9sn8e 20 күн бұрын

I was a patient in a public hospital no too long ago. I noticed that usernames and passwords were on post-it notes for anyone to see. HOW?

@mentalhealth9637 19 күн бұрын

Legacy.

@TheYodellingqueen 21 күн бұрын

LORD JESUS, We PRAY for DEVINE INTERVENTION in the Name Of JESUS 🙏🙏 AMEN! 😢😢😢

@zolilenombewu399 21 күн бұрын

What i dont understand with this journalist with so many years in the field does not know the importance of blood from the patient let me tell you the importance of blood when you want to diagnose the patient you take the blood of the patient .but i suspect that who ever is hacking they know someone who works in the HHLS and south african ladies have boyfriends all over the world who knows what did they say when they were sleeping 🤣🤣🤣😂😂