The patient data captured in the hack of software supplier Chipsoft has not been published and has since been destroyed. The Amsterdam company stated this on Tuesday evening declaration on your own website.
Chipsoft, which supplies software to Dutch healthcare institutions, was the target of a cyber attack at the beginning of this month. The hackers stole medical data from “some Dutch healthcare institutions”, as the company itself announced. In any case, this involved two TBS institutions and the Rotterdam Eye Hospital.
In the statement, Chipsoft said its own cybersecurity experts confirmed that the destruction of the data took place in a “technically correct manner.” The company does not want to say whether the hackers demanded a sum of money and whether it was met. A spokesperson does not want to say anything further and refers to the statement on the website.
The hackers threatened to publish data last week in a message on the dark web with two large countdown clocks. Moments later, the threat was withdrawn, after which Chipsoft confronted the NOS confirmed that it was negotiating with the hackers.
The National Police Unit was not immediately available for questions on Tuesday evening.
As a precaution, Chipsoft had disabled the connections of several customer systems. As a result, referral portals in hospitals were not available. According to the company, the majority of healthcare institutions can now use the portals again, but the recovery process requires “care and time”.
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