Brazil's Ministry of Health (MoH) suffered a major ransomware attack by the Lapsus$ Group,that resulted in the unavailability of the COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens.
The attack took off MoH's websites, including ConecteSUS, which tracks the trajectory of citizens in the public healthcare system.
The Group claimed that they took some 50TB worth of data has been extracted from the MoH's systems.
However, the Brazilian health minister said the department holds a backup of the data allegedly copied and erased from the national health service's databases.
"id": "MIN2057161122",
"linkid": "ministeriodasaude",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "12/2021",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"