Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC suffered a data breach incident after its vendor Netgain Technology was targeted in a ransomware attack.
The attackers took the data to misuse it — maybe to pressure their victim to pay the ransom, and possibly to sell the data or misuse it for fraudulent purposes.
However, AEC decided to notify the affected parties of this incident out of an abundance of caution.”
"id": "ASS043241022",
"linkid": "associated-eye-care",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "07/2022",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"