Hackers Hit UNM Hospital, Offer Compensation
Original title: Hackers hit UNM hospital, then apologize and offer patients $2,500. In a new statement, they reveal more about the incident.
The BYOD group attacked the University of New Mexico hospital, apologized, offered up to $2,500 per affected patient, and claimed they did not disrupt critical infrastructure.
Hackers from the BYOD group attacked the University of New Mexico hospital, locking documents and data on its systems. The group later apologized for targeting the hospital and offered compensation of up to $2,500 to affected patients. They stated they only targeted the university sector and did not intend to stop critical services, but they kept the data.
Unconfirmed: Whether the hospital systems were fully offline or only data was affected is disputed between the group and UNM.
- Offered up to $2,500 per affected patient
- Claimed they targeted university sector only
- Did not lock running applications
- Previously posted patient data on leak site
Impact: Unauthorized access to patient records and photos
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| University of New Mexico Hospital systems | — |
- Threat actors
- BYOD
- Countries
- United States
From the original article
5 min read at databreaches.netIn more than 20 years of blogging about breaches, DataBreaches has never seen ransomware threat actors offer monetary compensation to patients affected by their attack. We have seen threat actors regret hitting a hospital or a facility providing direct patient care and then offer them a free decryptor and drop the ransom demands, but this...
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