Hackers Apologize for Attacking UNM Hospital and Offer $2,500 Compensation
Original title: Hackers hit UNM hospital, then apologize and offer patients $2,500. In a new statement, they reveal more about the incident.
BYOD hackers offered $2,500 to affected patients after mistakenly targeting the hospital.
The BYOD hacker group attacked the University of New Mexico hospital but claimed they didn't realize some machines supported real-time patient care. They apologized, offered decryption and up to $2,500 payments to patients. They kept the data and blamed UNM for poor security. The hospital had placed machines on the same network as the university.
- Group offered $2,500 per affected patient
- Hospital systems were on same network as university
- Data still held by hackers
- UNM blamed for not separating networks
Impact: patient data
- Vendors
- University of New Mexico
- Products
- hospital systems
- Threat actors
- BYOD
- Countries
- United States
From the original article
3 min read at wordpress-1685287-6764806.cloudwaysapps.comIn 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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