NY ambulance service allegedly downplayed Hive Gang hack of 300K users

The hack of Empress Ambulance Providers occurred in late Might, however the firm didn't detect it till July 14.
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One of many state’s largest non-public ambulance firms is going through a doubtlessly huge class motion lawsuit for ready months to inform over 318,000 of their shoppers that their private info was stolen by hackers. 

Empress Ambulance Providers additionally allegedly downplayed the hack by Hive Gang, a infamous ransomware group, telling its clients that solely a “small subset of recordsdata” had been stolen — figuring out that the social safety numbers of a minimum of 100,000 had been compromised, in addition to medical info, in response to the most recent lawsuit towards the corporate, filed in Manhattan federal court docket on Tuesday.

The hack occurred in late Might, however the firm didn't detect it till July 14 — then waited till Sept. 9 to inform victims, in response to the lawsuit.

Empress additionally allegedly didn't inform its shoppers that the Hive Gang was the offender behind the hack regardless of receiving braggadocios emails from the felony enterprise, which reportedly grew to become energetic in June 2021 and has since pocketed over $100 million in ransom payouts from 1,300 firms it focused globally, in response to the FBI.

Empress Ambulance Providers allegedly didn't inform its shoppers that the Hive Gang was the offender behind the hack.

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“We infiltrated your community and stayed there for 12 days (it was sufficient to review
all of your documentation and acquire entry to your recordsdata and companies),
encrypted your servers, [d]ownloaded most necessary info with a complete measurement over 280 GB,” the hacker group wrote Empress, in response to the lawsuit.

The hacker group listed Empress on their web site on the darkish net shortly after the info breach, in response to the lawsuit. Recordsdata taken from the ambulance firm have since been discovered to be accessible to obtain on the darkish net.

The hacker group listed Empress Ambulance Providers on their web site on the darkish net shortly after the info breach.

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The lawsuit one among a minimum of 4 separate complaints towards Empress looking for an undisclosed quantity in damages.

Empress didn't reply to inquiries looking for remark.