Hackers have demanded Ontario-based health care provider CarePartners pay $18,000 worth of bitcoin in exchange for stolen patient data, HealthITSecurity reports. CarePartners announced it was hit by a data breach last June when it claimed patient and employee data had been compromised. The hackers contacted DataBreaches.net and provided two large files of data. The first file contained the encrypted medical information of about 80,000 patients, while the second held employee rates and earnings. CarePartners has not confirmed any details about the extortion attempt but released an update on the breach on their website.
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