Those chargeable for the cyber assault on the Hospital Clínic ask for a ransom and the Generalitat says it is not going to pay

The authorities’s Secretary for Telecommunications and Digital Transformation, Sergi Marcén, has confirmed that the cybercriminals who attacked the Hospital Clínic’s pc system have contacted the Generalitat to demand a ransom, in statements to Catalunya Ràdio.

Marcén didn’t need to reveal the determine that the RansomHouse group asks for in trade for restoring the pc system that helps to recuperate the complete operation of the hospital. The Generalitat’s response is evident: “we is not going to pay a penny and there’s no kind of negotiation”.

In the statements, he has acknowledged that the hackers have taken “some information”, though they nonetheless have no idea the scope, and he hopes that there shall be good outcomes quickly and “to have the ability to catch them”.

While work continues to recuperate the pc methods of the well being heart, which have been attacked final Sunday. This Thursday, 100% of the scheduled surgical procedures have been recovered and outpatient consultations have reached 50 %.

The Mossos d’Esquadra and Interpol proceed working to find the origin of an assault that has come from outdoors Spain.