400,000 women – also in Drenthe – received a letter from the Netherlands Population screening. It says that they have fallen victim to the hack. They are asked to be alert on suspicious phone calls in the coming period.
The online burglary took place at Laboratory Clinical Diagnostics in Rijswijk. There, data has been captured from nearly half a million women who participated in the Population screening cervical cancer.
The hack was performed by Nova, a ransomware group. That kind of groups demands ransom. If they don’t get that, they are in danger of publishing the data on the Darweb.
The captured data involves name, address and place of residence, date of birth, social security number, results of tests and names of care providers. A limited number of women also involves e-mail addresses or telephone numbers.