National center for data protection of a health care system of Norway (HelseCERT)

2018: Date leak of a half of the population of Norway

As a result of the hacker attack which took place in January, 2018, the unknown criminal or group of malefactors could steal medical data more than half of the population of Norway.

According to the Bleeping Computer edition, on January 8, 2018 hackers illegally got into a computer system of regional government of health care of Health South-East RHF supervising hospitals of a southeast part of the country. The organization announced the cracking fact on Monday, January 15 after HelseCERT, the national center for data protection of a health care system of Norway warned Health South-East RHF about suspicious activity in its network.

In Norway cracking of the regional organization of health care was resulted by date leak of nearly 3 million citizens

The investigation made by the IT staff of Sykehuspartner HF, parent structure of Health South East RHF revealed signs of serious date leak.

The matter is that in department of Health South-East RHF there are medical institutions of 9 of 18 areas of Norway, including Akerskhus (including the capital of Norway of Oslo), Eust-Agder, Buskerud, Hedmark, Opplann, Estfoll, Telemark, Vest-Agder and Vestfoll. Hospitals service about 2.9 million people from the general population of Norway in 5.2 million inhabitants.

According to HelseCert, the hackers involved in theft of data were experienced and acted professionally, reports the British edition V3.co.uk.^[1]

Now we estimate incident scales. Still too early to speak about that how large was the attack. We study all aspects — Kjetil Nilsen, the director of the cybersecurity organization NorCERT (Norwegian Computer Emergency Response Team) which is a part of Management of national security which also helps with investigation said in an interview to the Norwegian media.

In the joint press release concerning an incident of Health South East RHF and Sykehuspartner HF said that the situation is very serious and that the organizations already take measures for restriction of damage from cracking.^[2]

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