Overview
- Máxima MC in Eindhoven and Veldhoven restored its network on Tuesday after a disruption that halted surgeries, appointments, and emergency care, which the hospital described as a technical problem rather than a hack.
- The hospital began rescheduling canceled operations and treatments, saying urgent procedures would be prioritized and extra capacity used as needed.
- Máxima MC reported a telephone outage the previous evening and said a link to the network failure is suspected but unconfirmed as the cause remains under investigation.
- On Wednesday, Isala’s isala.nl and isalawerkt.nl and Martini Ziekenhuis’s site were briefly taken offline after an intrusion at the external company that manages their websites, with both sites now restored.
- Hospitals reported that appointments continued, patient portals such as mijnisala.nl remained available, extremist content briefly appeared on public pages, a group calling itself Black Witch claimed activity, and authorities are assessing possible legal reports while attribution is still being investigated.