Yes, that's the same gang that, back in January this year, "formally apologized" for breaking into the systems of Canada's largest children's hospital, SickKids, blaming a since-ditched affiliate group for an extortion attack and offering a free decryptor for the victim to recover the files. The LockBit ransomware gang claimed "credit" for the attack and published data, including, presumably, the children's information, back in March, to its own dark web blog site – seemingly after ransom demands were not met. The company claimed "not all data elements were involved for all individuals."
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This included a huge range of data, from patients' full names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses to their Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers or government ID numbers, and health insurance information, and in some cases even included dental X-rays. Managed Care of North America (MCNA) bills itself as "providing high quality services to state agencies and managed care organizations for their Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Medicare members." Medicaid and CHIP provide "free or low-cost" health coverage to some low-income people, families and children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.Īccording to the breach notice, available on the group's website, and also in a filing with the attorney general for the state of Maine, the attackers broke into MCNA's servers on February 26 and were able to access "certain systems" and "remove copies of some personal information" between then and March 7. The criminals who hit one of the biggest government-backed dental care and insurance providers in the US earlier this year hung about for 10 days while they extracted info on nearly 9 million people, including kids from poverty-stricken homes.
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