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Major IVF provider Genea suffers ‘cyber incident’ (1)

Posted on February 20, 2025February 25, 2025 by Dissent

Update: On February 24, 2025, the Termite ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack on Genea. On their darkweb leak site, they claim to have ~700gb of data from company’s servers such as confidential, personal data of clients.  They posted a number of screenshots with patient records as proof of claims. 

 

ACS Information Age reports:

Major Australian in vitro fertilisation (IVF) provider Genea is working to reassure distressed patients after confirming that an “unauthorised third party” has accessed its data in a breach whose scope is still becoming clear.

A nationwide provider of IVF services that is among Australia’s largest, the firm said in an update that it had detected “suspicious activity” on its network and had shut down some systems and servers while it investigated to find out what data and systems were breached.

Phone lines were down, Genea’s app was offline and emails were going unanswered, the ABC reported in quoting frustrated patients who rely on the clinic’s data processing systems to manage critical blood test data that sets the timing of their $12,000 IVF treatment cycles.

Read more at ACS.

Category: HackHealth DataNon-U.S.

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