Hostage software bend Nova threatens to leak stolen data from Clinical Diagnostics again. Nova announces this on Sunday on his darknet page. According to the criminals, the Rijswijk laboratory did not comply with the agreements by engaging the police. If Clinical Diagnostics does not pay ‘a high amount’ in ransom within eleven days, Nova says it will still bring the dates to the outside.
The data of thousands of participants of the national population screening were first spotted on July 6 on the anonymous, difficult to access, the internet, the Dark Web. Last Monday the news about the hack at the laboratory only came out.
RTL News On Wednesday on the basis of two anonymous sources within Nova and Clinical Diagnostics that an unknown sum of ransom has indeed been paid. On Wednesday, Nova got a sample with sensitive medical data from tens of thousands of Dutch people again offline.
The hack was widely arrested in the Dutch media, and now it appears that Nova has changed. The RansomeWar group claims that by the police to involve the case, Clinical Diagnostics did not comply with the agreements made. The police still shared on Sunday NRC “In the background” to be involved in the company from Rijswijk. Last week Clinical Diagnostics reported.
Nova is a relatively new hostage software that claims many victims in a short time, including the Italian municipality of Pisa. Cyber criminals work hard on underground forums to them image.