In more than 20 years of blogging about breaches, DataBreaches has never seen ransomware threat actors offer monetary compensation to patients affected by their attack. We have seen threat actors regret hitting a hospital or a facility providing direct patient care and then offer them a free decryptor and drop the ransom demands, but this…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02
DataBreaches.net previously covered the 2023 Lehigh Valley Health Network breach by AlphV (aka “BlackCat”). The breach garnered a lot of public attention when the threat actors crossed a line by posting nude pictures of patients on their leak site. In 2024, patients settled civil litigation for $65 million. Now HHS has settled its own charges…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02