The European Banking Authority, a key EU financial regulator, said Tuesday it has resolved a hack of Microsoft's email system and is operating normally.

Following a thorough investigation, the Paris-based EBA determined that the extent of the breach "was limited" and that confidentiality of its systems and data "has not been compromised".

"Thanks to the precautionary measures taken, the EBA has managed to remove the existing threat and its email communication services have, therefore, been restored," a statement added.

On Sunday, the authority said it was among the victims of a wide-scale hack that targeted Microsoft, which blamed a group dubbed "Hafnium".

That group had taken advantage of security faults in the Exchange messenger system to steal data from tens of thousands of professional users, Microsoft said.

It called "Hafnium" a "highly skilled and sophisticated actor," and charged that it was a state-sponsored group operating out of China.

Third French hospital hit by cyberattack
Pau, France (AFP) March 9, 2021 - A hospital in southwest France has seen some of its IT systems paralysed by a "ransomware" cyberattack, its management said Tuesday, the third such incident in the last month.

The 320-bed facility in Oloron-Sainte-Marie near the Pyrenees mountains was hit by the attack on Monday, with screens displaying a demand in English for $50,000 in Bitcoin.

Hospital workers have had to revert to working with pens and paper, since digital patient records are not available.

The management system, used to monitor medicine stocks and other supplies, has also been affected at a time when the hospital is taking part in vaccination efforts against Covid-19.

"We might get our systems back in 48 hours or in three months," hospital director Frederic Lecenne told local newspaper La Republique des Pyrenees.

He said personnel had disconnected some computers from the internet and the hospital's network to try to limit the spread of the ransomware.

In February, hospitals in Dax in southwest France and in Villefranche-sur-Saone in the southeastern Rhone region were subjected to ransomware attacks, while in 2019 a hospital in northern Rouen was also hit.

"Ransomware" attacks see criminals infiltrate and paralyse a target's IT systems, then demand payments in order to restore them.

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