Adam Sage reports:
An elite French police unit is reportedly negotiating with hackers demanding a seven-figure ransom after paralysing the computer system of a Paris region hospital.
Le Parisien newspaper said the Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), the French military police unit that specialises in terrorism, hostage-taking and other such crimes, was involved in round-the-clock talks with the hackers on encrypted platforms.
Read more at The Times (sub. req.).
See also https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/cyber-attaque-a-l-hopital-de-corbeil-la-rancon-exigee-divisee-par-dix-grace-au-gign_AV-202209010336.html (h/t, @Clarinette02)