The Fieldtex Products Corporation, a company that makes contract sewing products and fulfills medical supply orders from U.S. manufacturers, has notified hundreds of thousands of individuals after confirming an attack which compromised sensitive health-related information as a result of ransomware.
It was found out that the incident occurred after the company detected strange activity within its network in the middle of August, which led to an internal investigation that went on for a while, but which eventually revealed an unauthorized intrusion into systems containing protected health information relating to affiliated health plans.
According to Fieldtex’s breach notification, which was published on November 20, exposed data may include information about people’s names, residential addresses, dates of birth, health insurance membership number, plan information, and coverage, as well as genders, health insurance insurance membership numbers and member identification numbers.
It has been reported that the breach has affected approximately 238,615 individuals, according to regulatory filings submitted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The disclosure came in the wake of a public claim made by Akira, a ransomware group that listed Fieldtex’s E-First Aid Supplies division on its Tor-based leak site on November 5, asserting that it had exfiltrated over 14 gigabytes of internal data, such as employee, customer, and fi
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