Patient data of about 19 million people stolen from Polish healthcare platform
Patient data of about 19 million people was stolen from a Polish healthcare platform. Poland's prime minister raised the possibility that demands for money were the motive for the attack. It was later pointed out that the government had been unaware of the leak for two years.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Medical data of about 19 million patients
- Cause / method
- Theft of patient data through a hack of the healthcare platform
- Location
- Poland
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataHealth & medical data
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organisation’s official website or app.
Timeline
- The leak of medical data of about 19 million people in Poland was reported.
- The theft of patient data from a healthcare platform was reported, and the prime minister raised the possibility that demands for money were the motive.
- It was pointed out that the government had been unaware of the data leak for two years.
6 related reports
- A massive data breach in Poland affected nearly 19 million people
- 'Unprecedented': Medical data of almost 19 million Poles leaked
- European nation rocked by major hacker attack: “largest data leak in history”
- Poland hit by theft of 19 million patients’ data from medical platform
- Ransom likely motive in mass breach of Polish medical data: PM
- They leak twice: Tusk government unaware for two years of data breach affecting 19 million Poles
The summary and key facts are written by AI from related reports and may contain errors. Check the original articles and the organisation’s official statements for accurate details.