FBI investigating cyber attack at Oracle, Bloomberg News reports
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The report said it was not clear how many patient records were breached and which healthcare providers were targeted.
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WASHINGTON – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing a cyber attack at Oracle that has led to the theft of patient data, Bloomberg News reported on March 28, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Earlier in March, Oracle alerted some healthcare customers that sometime after Jan 22, hackers accessed its servers and copied patient data to an outside location, the report said, adding that the hack was aimed at extorting multiple medical providers in the US.
The FBI declined to comment. Oracle did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
The report said it was not clear how many patient records were breached and which healthcare providers were targeted.
Oracle, based in Austin, Texas, acquired the US healthcare IT company Cerner Corp
The purchase came with a US$16 billion contract with the US Department of Veterans Affairs, which has seen highly publicised outages and lawmaker scrutiny, according to the report.
The company told customers that the hackers accessed older Cerner servers, taking data that had not yet been shifted to Oracle’s cloud storage service, the report said.
Oracle said it became aware of the breach around Feb 20, according to the report. REUTERS
