An anonymous group claiming responsibility for a cyber attack on CarePartners , a provider of emergency medical care service for the Ontario government , have revealed that they are holding patient data to ransom . anonymous groups were contacted by the group and supplied a sample of data containing personal health and financial information , including credit card security codes . The group claimed it had requested compensation in exchange for information on how to resolve their security concerns and to not store the data online ; it also claimed that the data was just a subset of hundreds of thousands of Canadian patient records .
An anonymous group claiming responsibility for a cyber attack on CarePartners, a provider of home medical care service for the Ontario government, have revealed that they are holding patient data to ransom. CBC News were contacted by the group and supplied a sample of data containing personal health and financial information, including credit card security codes. The group claimed it had requested compensation in exchange for information on how to fix their security issues and to not leak the data online; it also claimed that the sample was just a subset of hundreds of thousands of Canadian patient records.