Ransomware gang claims responsibility for Kettering Health hack

A network of hospitals, clinics and medical centers in Ohio has demanded a ransomware gang responsibility for the hack of Katering Health. Healthcare system is still recovering Two weeks after Ranswear’s attack it was forced to turn off all its computer systems.

Interlock, a relatively new ransomware group which The United States noticed healthcare agencies From September 2024, his official Dark Web site has released a post, claiming that Katering has stolen more than 940 GB of data from health.

CNN first reported The Interlock that was on May 28 was behind the catering health violation. However, at that time, the Interlock did not publicly accept credit. Generally, this may mean that cyber criminals are trying to rescue ransom from their victims, threatening to publish stolen data. The Interlock may now indicate that the discussion has gone somewhere.

John Weimer, senior vice president of the Emergency Catering Health, had earlier told the local media that the health care agency did not give ransom to hackers.

Catering Health spokesperson TK did not comment on Wednesday when he arrived at TechCunch.

Interlock does not respond to any request for comments sent to the email address listed on its dark website.

A brief review of some of the files published on its dark web site shows that hackers were able to steal data from the internal network of Catering Health, including: personal health information, such as patient names, number of patients and clinical summons written by doctors, including mental state, drugs, health anxiety and other categories. Other stolen data includes the content of employee data and the share of the drive.

One of the folders contains documents such as background files, polygraphs and other personal identification information from police officers of the Catering Health Police Department.

Monday, Catering Health Publish an update Through CyberTack, the company was able to recover the “main components” of its electronic health record system, which provided a healthcare software company Epic. The company said that “it is an important step in our broad recovery effort and return to general activities”, which allows it “to update and access the electronic health records, facilitate communication on care teams and to adjust patient care with more speed and precision.” “