Taipei Hosptial Data Breach (2019)

Department of Information Management Director Parng I-ming (龐一鳴) said that the ministry received information about a ransomware attack initiated early on Thursday at the ministry’s Taipei Hospital in New Taipei City. However, the hospital restored the system within two hours and no medical records were leaked, Parng said. About a dozen other hospitals reported ransomware attacks that were initiated early on Friday, he said, adding that the issues were resolved in one to two hours, no ransoms were paid and no patient information was compromised. Similar incidents have occurred at hospitals in Taiwan before, with the source of the attacks tracked to eastern Europe, he said, adding that the sources of this week’s attacks have not yet been identified.