Hackers attacked one of the Italian offices of an international medical diagnostics supplier: and among those penalized by the hackers’ action were also just over 200 Cesena residents: whose health data and analyses ended up in the hands of web pirates who blackmailed the servers.
The latest cyber attack in chronological order that affected Romagna and the Cesena area is the one suffered a couple of weeks ago by Synlab: a medical diagnostics giant whose headquarters are in Munich but which also has a rich branch in Italy and serves with its services related to the development of analyses in the medical field many regions, including Emilia Romagna (with its headquarters in Faenza) and Cesena.
Synlab is also used, among others, by Laboratorio Suzzi in via Natale dell’Amore, which is currently communicating the violation to a portion of its customers (as per European regulations on telematics security).
Synlab computers have been violated by hackers in a multinational company headquarters located in Casteledolo, in the Brescia area. Two PCs in particular ended up in the hackers’ sights, who were able to download thousands of patient data and related analyses carried out anywhere in Italy. Then, as always in the “style” of hackers, the violation of the databases was accompanied by a “ransom” request to get their data back in exchange for payment in untraceable bitcoins. A practice that Synlab opposed. With the hackers who at that point followed up on the threat by publishing (on the dark web) the data they had stolen from Synlab. Among these are also 667 files from Cesena who have used Synlab services in the city through the Suzzi laboratory. Each patient is catalogued with three different personal files: so the actual violated data corresponds to just over 200 people. The postal police have been on the trail of the hackers, following the complaint filed in recent weeks by Synlab Italia. Who is working on the type of virus that managed to infect the Lombard computers of the multinational. In the hope of being able to laboriously trace the authors of the cyber attack sooner or later.
