Cyber Attack on Apollo Hospital server, hackers access Jayalalitha health records

Chennai: Apollo hospitals has landed up as a victim of cyber attack after a hacker group by the name of Legion confirmed that they had access to hospital's server.

The server of Apollo Hospital Chennai, where Tamil Nadu's late CM Jayalalithaa had undergone treatment for a long duration before her demise, contains various confidential information including patient records etc. Speaking to the Washington Post, through an encrypted instant-messaging software, the hacker group confirmed that the group had access to servers like that of India's biggest private hospital chain, Apollo. He said they were unsure about releasing data from those servers because it might cause “chaos.”

"Legion wasn't even interested in 'political data' until a few weeks ago. ...the group was in possession of several terabytes of raw data concerning all sorts of 'interests' and that within that trove the hackers had identified gigabytes worth of information relating to Indian public figures," the report quoted the user marked LC from "Legion Crew" as saying.

The hacker group, which has recently come out in the open, has been attributed the various leaks which have come in the past few days including hacking into four high-profile Twitter accounts, commandeering them as vehicles to release the account owners' personal telephone numbers, bank account details and email passwords. Its various targets include Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, liquor baron Vijay Mallya and Journalist Barkha Dutt to name a few.