Punjab`s Covid survey app for ASHAs suffers outage, health dept suspects Chinese ransomware attack, then ...
(WorldNews India)

The Punjab Health Department`s official mobile application — ‘House to House Surveillance’ (Ghar Ghar Jaake Nigrani) — which was launched for ASHA workers to do door-to-door Covid survey suffered an outage on Saturday. While earlier in the day, the Department communicated to district level community mobilisers that the app had been ‘attacked by Chinese ransomware’, it clarified in the evening that it was only a ‘technical glitch` ASHA workers, meanwhile, confirmed that on Saturday, the mobile application wasn’t working for hours, with multiple attempts to login not succeeding. In the official state-level Health Department WhatsApp group —...