Data Stolen & Held for Ransom
Who Breached: Virgina Prescription Monitoring Program
Number Affected: 8 million +
Information breached: Prescription records
How: hacker
This isn’t an April Fool’s Joke, though it may seem like it. Hackers allegedly broke into a Virginia state website used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. The hackers then deleted records on more than 8 million patients and 35 million prescription records.