The Hackers Who Broke Into the Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory in Rijswijk had access to the data of approximately 850,000 patients. The Lab concludes this after investigation “With a high degree of Certainty.”
Population screening Netherlands, One of the Lab’s Clients, Reported on Friday that at Least 715,000 Women Were Affected. Now, about 135,000 are added to that. The Hacked Systems of Clinical Diagnostics in Rijswijk Contain the Data of More than 941,000 people who have participated in the population screening for Cervical Cancer Since 2017.
The Data Breach Came to Light Earlier This Month. Names, Addresses, and Citizen Service Numbers Were Leaked. This is not only concerns data from participants in the population screening, but also data from approachy 200 clients of Bergman clinics and a very limited number of patients at the alrijne hospital.
Part of the Stolen Data was published by a hacker group on the dark web, the shielded part of the internet. The criminals threated to share all the data if the laboratory in Rijswijk Did not Pay. RTL Nieuws wrote that clinical diagnostics then transferred an unknown amount of ransom.
After that, the Group Tried to Extort the Laboratory Again, because Accordance to Her, the Police interfered Too Much With The Case, But The Hackers later Withdrew From That. The Hackers Claim to Have Deleted All Data, Although It is Unknown Whether They Are Count The Truth.
At Least 68,000 Women Whose Personal Data was Stolen in The Hack Have Joined Initiatives to File a Joint Claim for Damages. Victims who sign up for the collective claim do not have to pay anything for this. The Plan is that the law firms and any litigation funders will recoive part of the compensation IF the case is won.