Texas Children's Hospital

Texas Children's Hospital

The patient data of Texas Children’s Hospital was breached in the Blackbaud cyber attack.

The attackers removed a backup of the Texas Children’s donor database from the company's servers.

However after the ransom payment was done, the attackers destroyed all the stolen data.

Source: https://us.newschant.com/us-news/houston/texas-children-hospital-notifies-patients-of-data-security-incident/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/texas-children%27s-hospital

"id": "tex162110222",
"linkid": "texas-children%27s-hospital",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "09/2020",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Healthcare',
                        'location': 'Texas',
                        'name': 'Texas Children’s Hospital',
                        'type': 'Hospital'}],
 'data_breach': {'data_exfiltration': True,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': 'Donor Information'},
 'description': 'The patient data of Texas Children’s Hospital was breached in '
                'the Blackbaud cyber attack. The attackers removed a backup of '
                "the Texas Children’s donor database from the company's "
                'servers. However, after the ransom payment was done, the '
                'attackers destroyed all the stolen data.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Donor Database']},
 'motivation': 'Financial',
 'ransomware': {'data_exfiltration': True, 'ransom_paid': True},
 'title': 'Texas Children’s Hospital Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach, Ransomware'}
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