Another hospital system has gone down in a ransomware attack with half a million patient records accessed — just weeks after one of the biggest healthcare hacks in US history.
Texas-based OakBend Medical Center said names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses and social security numbers had all been accessed in the cyberattack last Thursday.
The nonprofit hospital chain company operates three hospitals as well as emergency centers, imaging centers and physical therapy clinics hospital in the greater Houston area.
The medical system the data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on October 28, stating that around 500,000 individuals had been affected.
Daixin Team — a ransomware and data extortion group — has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The group is financially motivated and emerged in June this year.
Its previous victim is Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri, where the team claim to have stolen 40GB of sensitive data containing employee and patient records.
The group is actively targeting the healthcare sector, a from the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Department of Health and Human Services released last month said.
It comes after CommonSpirit Health - a hospital system that spans 21 states and has 20million patients on its register - fell victim to a similar ransomware attack.
CommonSpirit admitted 'some' of its systems are still down after a ransomware attack in early October. The incident led to a three-year-old Iowa being being overdosed on pain meds, and Slot Deposit Pulsa delays to critical scans and surgery.
Unlike OakBend Medical Center, CommonSpirit is still refusing to say who did the hack, if patient data was accessed, and if so, how many records were obtained.
The above map shows Oakbend Medical Center's three hospital sites.
The system was hit by a cyberattack on September 1, when the ransomware group Daixin Team stole hundreds of thousands of employee and patient data
Healthcare provider CommonSpirit, with its HQ in Chicago, has 140 hospitals in 21 states.
The company suffered a ransomware attack on October 3 , forcing it to shut down its computer systems. The next day a toddler was mistakenly overdosed on medication in Iowa because a doctor could not access the dispensing IT program. Ambulances had to be diverted away from the struggling hospital.
In Washington, patients' cancer care was delayed for days while the hospital systems were down