GHC-SCW breach exposes medical and other data of 533,809 people
US healthcare organisation GHC-SCW disclosed that personal and medical information of 533,809 people was stolen in a breach that occurred in January. The attacker's attempt to encrypt devices failed. The BlackSuit gang claimed the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- GHC-SCW
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal and medical information of 533,809 people
- Cause / method
- Data theft and attempted device encryption in a ransomware attack
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataHealth & medical data
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Timeline
- GHC-SCW disclosed that personal and medical information of 533,809 people had been stolen in a January breach and that an attempt to encrypt devices had failed.
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