Joe Tidy
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Jul
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In 2015, the Chinese government set out an ambitious project called Made in China 2025.
It wanted to move away from being the world's factory for low-cost goods to a global tech leader.
Well, in a sense, this is a good news story because although it sounds really, really serious, and it was, Romania did a fantastic job of coping with what could have been a really catastrophic situation.
So I'm in Romania now.
We've made an in-depth report about exactly what happened and what were these sort of unseen heroics.
from doctors and cybersecurity professionals.
It was in February 2024 when the attack took place and ransomware hackers got into a Romanian software maker and they are the makers of this very popular piece of medical software called Hippocrate and using that access they infected
dozens of hospitals across Romania.
And in the chaos of not knowing which hospitals were infected or not, the DNSC, the Cyber Security Centre here, took a very important but also quite controversial decision to order all the hospitals to go offline.
So that was more than 100 hospitals that went offline.
That obviously forced doctors and nurses to go back to pen and paper.
In the end, that was known and sort of looked at as a very wise move because it allowed them to, it bought them time to work out which ones were actually infected.
Well, we reported on it at the time, but of course, in the kind of melee of the breaking news story, we never really found out what happened behind the scenes.
So I've come back here to do an in-depth report on it, which is on the BBC News website.
We've made a 10-minute YouTube documentary as well, because there's just a really fantastic story here to be told about what happened.
can be done to to keep these kind of things from affecting patient care because you say it could have been a deadly attack and in the end 26 hospitals were fully infected with ransomware and that caused them a huge amount of disruption but the doctors and nurses managed to find a way through and I think one of the reasons that I've been told is that
There is a kind of the institutional memory of working in an undigital way is quite fresh here because Romania is a more recently digitized country.
So that may have been a factor.
But also it was, you know, quick thinking and heroics from people in the cybersecurity center.
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