Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson
A prolific hacking group has taken credit for last week’s cyberattack against U.S. pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson, leading to the latest spill of highly sensitive health data by an American healthcare company in recent months.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: Bleeping Computer, which first reported the link to the ShinyHunters hacking group, said the hackers demanded a $55 million ransom from the company in exchange for not publicly releasing the stolen files.
- Fact 2: Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic have also experienced cyberattacks, while electronic patient records provider CareCloud and health tech company TriZetto had breaches affecting over 3 million patients each.
- Fact 3: He can be reached via encrypted message at zackwhittaker.1337 on Signal.
A prolific hacking group has taken credit for last week’s cyberattack against U.S. pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson, leading to the latest spill of highly sensitive health data by an American healthcare company in recent months.
McKesson confirmed Friday in a statement on its website that hackers broke into several of its cloud-hosted accounts earlier in the week and exfiltrated data, and that the company expected “intermittent service degradation” related to the incident. In a separate notice to customers, the company’s chief technology officer, Francisco Fraga, said the stolen data relates to its oncology & multispecialty and medical-surgical units. The Texas-based company is one of the largest American distributors of pharmaceuticals, medicines, medical supplies, and technology to hospitals and healthcare providers across the United States, and as such handles a large amount of patient data.
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