"Cyberattack on California Healthcare Organization"

A non-profit community-based healthcare organization in Northern California is investigating a cyberattack that has disrupted its computer systems.  Partnership HealthPlan of California, which serves more than 618,000 Medi-Cal members in 14 Northern California counties from Fairfield, notified a local community health center on March 21 that its computer systems were down.   The investigation has not yet determined whether any personal data belonging to patients or staff was compromised in the attack.  In a dark web post that has since been deleted, a ransomware group claimed to have accessed Partnership HealthPlan’s system and stolen 400GB files from the organization’s server.  The ransomware group claims the files house hundreds of thousands of medical records containing patients’ names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, addresses, and contact details.  A security researcher at Compaitech stated that the Hive ransomware group posted on its darkweb site that it had stolen 850,000 personally identifiable information (PII) records from the Partnership HealthPlan of California.

Infosecurity reports: "Cyberattack on California Healthcare Organization"