Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center confirmed that hackers accessed the personal and sensitive health data of more than 1.4 million people during a September cyberattack.
This cyberattack also affected TTUHSC's El Paso campus, where the attackers stole health information including social security numbers, financial account information, government-issued ID details, medical record numbers, billing data, and medical school diagnosis and treatment information. is. said in an announcement on its dedicated website. As of this writing, the TTUHSC security incident website contains a “noindex” code that tells search engines to ignore the page, making it impossible for affected individuals to find the website in search results. becomes more difficult.
A list on the U.S. Department of Health's data breach portal confirms that universities have notified 1.46 million individuals whose information was compromised in a data breach.
According to Bleeping Computer, the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the cyberattack. In a post on a dark web leak site seen by TechCrunch, the group claims to have released 2.1 million files stolen from TTUHSC, totaling 2.6 terabytes of data.