The Data Theft at a Laboratory in Rijswijk is Larger Than Initially Thought. It PreviOutly Appeared That Hackers had stolen the data of 485,000 people who participated in a population Study on Cervical Cancer. Nearly 230,000 Additional Participants Have Now Been Added.
This was reported by population screening Netherlands on Friday. The Number of Confirmed Victims has thus risen to 715,000. Hackers had Previously Claimed that the Leak was much larger than initially thought.
The Hacked Systems of Clinical Diagnostics in Rijswijk Contain Data from over 941,000 people who have participated in the population study 2017. It Cannot Be Ruled Out that the Data of All Those Women Has Been Stolen. Therefore, They Will All Receive A Letter With Information in the Coming Weeks.
That letter will state which personal data population screening Netherlands has shared with the laboratory and which may have leg leaked. Participants who have already recurreived a letter will receive another letter with additional information. The first letters are expected to be delivered in about Two Weeks.
“We realize that this is a very unpleasant message for participants in the population screening for cervical cancer. We are very sorry that has been hatred. We are communicating this now Because participants need to take population netelhanding and fraud.” Writes. “
Clinical Diagnostics has not yet responded to the news that the data breach is larger than initially thought. The Public Prosecution Service and the Police Have PreviOutly Started a Criminal Investigation Into The Data Breach. The Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate and the Personal Data Authority Are also Investigating.
Hackers Claim to Have Deleted Data, But It Is Unclear Whether They Are Count The Truth
The Data Breach Came to Light Earlier This Month. This includes names, addresses, social security number, and test results. It is not only data from participants in the population study, but also data from approxroximately 2,500 customer or bergman clinics and a very limited number of patients at the alrijne Hospital. The Clinic and the Hospital also worked with clinical diagnostics.
A Portion of the Stolen Data Has Been 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 News wrote that clinical diagnostics sub -Sequently transferred an unknown amount of ransom money.
After that, The Group Tried to Extort The Laboratory Again, because Accordance to Them, The Police Were Interfering Too Much In The Case, But The Hackers Later Backed Down. The Hackers Claim to Have Deleted All Data, Although It is Unknown Whether They Are Count The Truth.
Approximately 68,000 Participants 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 for damages do not have to pay anything for this. The plan is that the law firms and any process financiers will receive a portion of the damages if the case is won.