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2009 — Virginia Dept. Of Health: An extortion demand posted on WikiLeaks sought $10…

2009 8.3M records affected Share on X

Technical writeup

May 2009. An extortion demand posted on WikiLeaks sought $10 million to return over 8 million patient records and 35 million prescriptions allegedly stolen from Virginia Department of Health Professions. All 36 servers were shut down to protect records.

Root cause

Hacked

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