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Incident: Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in Westmead Hospital in cyber attack, hackers threatening to release stolen data | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in Westmead Hospital in cyber attack, hackers threatening to release stolen data | ABC News (Australia)

Australian Medical Ransomware Attack, 04 May 2023

Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in Westmead Hospital in cyber attack, hackers threatening to release stolen data

The ransomware group Medusa demand, pay AUD100,000 within a seven-days.

Source: Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in Westmead Hospital in cyber attack, hackers threatening to release stolen data | ABC News (Australia)

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A major cancer treatment centre in Sydney has been caught up in a cyber attack, with hackers threatening to release stolen data unless hospital administrators pay a ransom.

NSW Health said it was alerted to the threat against the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre, which is part of Westmead Hospital, late on Thursday afternoon.

“NSW Health continues to investigate this issue which does not appear to have impacted any NSW Health databases, nor Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre databases,” they said.

The group claiming to be behind the attack calls itself Medusa and has been actively targeting organisations in Australia and New Zealand since the start of January 2023.

 


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