After Dax and Villefranche-sur-Saône, the Oloron-Sainte-Marie hospital in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, which was the victim of ransomware, became the third hospital in France to be hit by a cyberattack. In February, hospitals in Dax in southwest France and Villefranche-sur-Saône in the southeast Rhone region were hit by Ransomware attacks.

Oloron-Sainte-Marie hospital announced that some of its IT systems were exposed to Ransomware. The Oloron-Sainte-Marie hospital was hacked Monday, with a screen asking for $50,000 in Bitcoin.

Hospital staff had to work with paper and pen because they could not access digital patient records. Oloron-Sainte-Marie hospital; At a time when vaccination studies against Covid-19 were started, the systems that monitor drug stocks and other medical intervention materials were also affected by the attack, so they could not perform their necessary services and monitor the warehouse.