A joint advisory published in June by cybersecurity authorities worldwide revealed that this ransomware gang has extorted at least $91 million from U.S. organizations following at least 1,700 attacks since 2020.
Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data
- December 29, 2023
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- Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center (the attack's victims) have founded the North Star Health Alliance, a collaborative partnership focused on providing healthcare services across the northern New York area.
- Together, they serve more than 220,000 residents living in Jefferson, northern Lewis, southern St. Lawrence Counties, Ogdensburg, and St. Lawrence County.
"Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton Medical Center Information Technology (IT) teams continue work to stabilize all systems following a cybersecurity incident discovered by internal security software last Thursday night," the hospitals said.
- While investigating the incident with the FBI's help, the hospitals found that the data stolen by Lockbit's affiliates (including patients' names, addresses, dates of birth, financial information, social security numbers, health insurance, and other personally identifying and protected health information) is now stored on the servers of Wasabi Technologies, a cloud storage company in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lawsuit to recover stolen PII and health data
- "So the best option explored by our legal team and working with the FBI is actually going after that company to get our secluded data so that we can be sure what information was leaked," North Star Health Alliance CEO Richard Duvall told 7News.
- According to court documents, the cloud storage firm has already provided the FBI with copies of the data requested by the hospitals.
"Upon Information and belief, Wasabi has already provided copies of the stolen data to the FBI."
- Another LockBit affiliate attacked the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto one week before last Christmas, causing diagnostic and treatment delays.
The LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation was first spotted in September 2019, with its victim list including the Continental automotive giant, the UK Royal Mail, the City of Oakland, and the Italian Internal Revenue Service.
A joint advisory published in June by cybersecurity authorities worldwide revealed that this ransomware gang has extorted at least $91 million from U.S. organizations following at least 1,700 attacks since 2020.
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