Hospital Clínic de Barcelona heavily impacted by a ransomware attack

On Sunday 5th of March 2023, the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in severe disruptions to its healthcare services after the organisation’s virtual machines were targeted by the attack.

Following a statement issued by the Government of Catalonia, the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona suffered an attack by the RansomHouse ransomware operation. The statement also revealed that the cyberattack impacted the emergency services of three medical centers associated with Clínic de Barcelona, including CAP Casanova, CAP Borrell, and CAP Les Corts.

Although the hospital’s SAP system wasn’t impacted, all applications and communications remain broken as work to restore critical systems continues. Therefore patient information for physicians is unavailable and has impacted some of the services provided.