Daixin Team has taken credit for a Sept. 1 assault on Texas-based OakBend Medical Center, causing a shutdown of the organization’s communication and IT systems as well as exfiltrating internal data, The Register reported today.
The criminals claim to have stolen more than a million records including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and patient treatment information.
It’s not immediately clear if that’s one million patients affected or one million pieces of sensitive medical and personal info.
The gang further warned a “full leak” of the data may follow, and claims to have shared employees’ personal information already as a download, presumably to prove it siphoned data and/or to chivy the healthcare group into meeting the extortionists’ demands.
OakBend, which operates three hospitals in the US state, said it pulled the plug on its infected computers and “immediately” called in the big guns: the FBI and local government cybersecurity officials, along with experts from Microsoft, Dell, and Malware Protects. Read more.
