Lawrence Mower, Romy Ellenbogen, and Christopher O’Donnell report:
A hacker group claims it has breached the Florida Department of Health and gained access to a large amount of potentially sensitive data on Floridians.
The RansomHub ransomware group said in a post on the dark web that it will release 100 gigabytes of department data unless the state pays an undisclosed amount of money. A database of all of the state’s payments to contractors in a year takes up about 0.1 gigabytes.
What type of information the group possesses, or even whether it possesses any, is unclear. A spokesperson for the department, which reports to Gov. Ron DeSantis, confirmed on Wednesday the department experienced “a potential cyber incident.” The Times/Herald has asked the state about the hack since Friday.
Read more at Tampa Bay Times.
Note: Do not confuse this entity with Florida Community Health Centers (FCHC), which also disclosed a ransomware breach