Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million

An information violation in the largest health system of Connecticut Yale New Haven Health affects more than 5.5 million people A notice that is legally required By the US government’s health department.

Yale New Haven, March cyberattack allowed the harmful hackers to be identified by patients identifying the identity of patients and some health-related information.

For a warning Website of the healthcare systemThe stolen data is changing, but may include patient names, birth, mail and email addresses, phone numbers, racial and ethnicity information and social security numbers. The stolen information includes information about patients and medical record numbers.

Local media quoted The spokesman for the health system says the number of people affected can “change.”

When asked about the nature of Cyberattack by Techcrunch, Yale Yeni Haven spokesman Dana Marnane did not argue that the event was related Ransomware.

“The tenderness of the attack believes that we are implemented by a person or group of such events,” said Marnane, referring to Sustainable law enforcement agencies, refused to comment on Techcrunch.

The healthcare provider refused to say if they have any communication with hackers or to say if the hackers demand the payment.

According to the press time, no major rating group did not take a loan to hack. Ransomware is not rare and Information usurpation groups To publish the victim’s stolen documents when negotiations have taken place to meet the ransom demand.

This is a violation of the second great health information this week, after revealing this after the blue shield of California Shared the health information of the 47 million patients with Google for several years.

Updated with additional information related to comments and ransomware.