Local Family Health Team Becomes Latest Victim Of Cyberattack 991 FM CKXS Your Music Variety

p ppThe fallout continues following last years ransomware attack that resulted in a massive data breach at five southwestern Ontario hospitalsppThe Tilbury District Family Health Team TDFHT has confirmed that its patient health information was impacted by the cyberattack on October 23 2023 which also resulted in varying amounts of patient and staff data being stolen from Bluewater Health the ChathamKent Health Alliance CKHA Erie Shores HealthCare HôtelDieu Grace Healthcare and Windsor Regional HospitalppThe attack targeted TransForm Shared Service Organization which runs technology systems at all five hospitals and TDFHTppIn a letter to affected patientsclients TDFHT said it determined that its electronic medical record was not compromised during the data breach However the health team said data that was stored on a shared drive was stolenppThe stolen data may have also included patient names birth dates addresses and health card numbers As well the stolen data also contained patient reports pertaining to medical status or chronic disease programming patient medication summaries and immunization status summariesppSocial insurance numbers banking details and financial information were not accessed by the hackers TDFHT saidppWhile data stolen from the five regional hospitals has since been published online by the cyber criminals responsible it is unknown if any data TDFHT has been postedppThe Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner has been notified of the data breach at TDFHT As well municipal police departments the Ontario Provincial Police INTERPOL and the FBI are all actively investigating the cyberattackppAside from CKHA and TDFHT TransForm said no other organizations utilize its services in ChathamKentp