The cyber attack on the servers of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi was carried out by Chinese hackers, a senior government source told news agency on Wednesday, 15 December. The official added that in the five servers have been successfully retrieved now.
Flashback: On 23 November, AIIMS-New Delhi issued a statement saying their server withheld details of their outpatient and inpatient digital hospital services including smart lab, billing, report generation, appointment system, were affected.
The big point: In such an attack, access to data or a device is blocked. What followed was a frenzy of staff scrambling for hours to get the server running as services came to a sudden stand still as a result of the breach.
More importantly, it comes at a time when Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament on 13 December that the Indian Army had resisted an attempt by China to change the status quo on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh.