A well-known ransom organization has set its sights on the McAlester Regional Health Centre in Oklahoma and claims to have stolen over 126GB of data from the facility, including a large number of DNA patient records that will be sold at auction to the highest bidder.
On August 1st, the Karakurt ransomware hacking group announced its plans to publish samples and subsequently sell off 117GB of the hospital’s private data.
On their anonymous website’s “Pre-Release” section on Friday, the hackers wrote: “Those are companies that refused negotiations and are going to be auctioned soon.”
Part of the collection, according to Karakurt, contains at least 40GB worth of genetic DNA patient records that the organization allegedly took read more Hackers threaten to auction off DNA patient records from Oklahoma hospital.
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