Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports:
German IT services provider Bitmarck has shut down all of its customer and internal systems, including entire datacenters in some cases, following a cyberattack.
The company, one of the largest service providers for German health insurers, said no customer, patient, or insured individuals’ data had been accessed in the security breach — at least not according to “the current state of knowledge,” according to an April 30 update posted on its temporary website.
Patient data “was and is never endangered by the attack,” the alert read, noting that this sensitive information is subject to “special protection” under Germany’s Gematik healthcare data regulations.
Read more at The Register.