After cyber attack local hospitals find stolen patient info look for its return

pWWNY Nearly four months after a cyber attack ClaxtonHepburn Medical Center and Carthage Area Hospital have made progress in learning what stolen data may have been leaked and where it was being stored Now the hospitals have filed legal paperwork to get that data backppThis past summers cyber attack on ClaxtonHepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg and Carthage Area Hospital consumes CEO Rich Duvalls daytoday jobppThe hackers demanded money or they would make patient and employee personal data public No ransom was paidppTo date 30 patients data have been breached revealing their names phone numbers and why they were at the hospital Duvall says it could have been millions of patientsppThe severity of the breach was limited because the hospitals tech team caught the hackers in the act and stopped themppI think without that it could have been much much worse said DuvallppThe hospitals and FBI have discovered where the stolen data was stored The hospital is now taking legal action filing documents in late November that indicate the stolen data was stored on a server owned by Wasabi Technologies in Boston MassachusettsppDuvall says Wasabi Technologies is a legitimate company and is there to store data it just doesnt know its stolen datappThe data doesnt just belong to Claxton and Carthage There are other stolen data from other entities The legal move by Duvall he says should help the local hospitals separate their own data and get it back and also prevent the data from being accessed by anyone else and have all copies destroyedppSo the best option explored by our legal team and working with the FBI is actually going after that company to get our secluded data so that we can be sure what information was leaked said DuvallppThe legal paperwork does indicate Wasabi is cooperating with the FBIppSo now the hospitals continue to rebuild their systems Most are recovered but Duvall admits there are still glitchesppNot paying the ransom dealing with the hack almost daily with rebuilding a system paying lawyers and working with the IT team and consultants has to be costlyppBut Duvall says most of those expenses are covered by cyber insurance a move made by the hospitals more than a decade agoppAs for finding the stolen data could it lead to the hackers Duvall says hes hopeful but that part of it is up to the FBIppCopyright 2023 WWNY All rights reservedp