Another 210,000 Americans Affected by Netgain Ransomware Attack

The number of Americans affected by a cyber-attack on a cloud hosting and IT services provider has increased by 210,000.

Netgain Technologies LLC, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, was forced to take some of its data centers offline after falling victim to a ransomware attack on November 23 last year. A few days after the attack, customers were emailed warnings that system outages or slowdowns may occur. 

The company provides services to several organizations in the healthcare and accounting industries, including Woodcreek Provider Service, a medical-practice management company in Washington state that provides support to pediatric clinics and urgent care centers owned and operated by MultiCare Health System.

On December 3, Netgain notified Woodcreek that the protected health information of patients was stored on servers affected by the cyber-attack and may have been accessed by threat actors. Other data that may have been compromised included the personal information of Woodcreek employees, healthcare providers, applicants, contractors, and individuals receiving services delivered by MultiCare Health Systems and/or Woodcreek Provider Service. 

According to a statement released March 9 by Woodcreek: "The information included names and addresses, medical record numbers, dates of birth, social security numbers, health insurance policy and identification numbers, insurance claims, explanation of benefits, statements, clinical notes, referral requests, laboratory reports, decision not to vaccinate forms, authorization requests for services, treatment approvals, records requests, immunization information, vaccine records, prescription requests, release ..

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