The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing the cyberattack at Oracle that has led to the theft of affected person information, Bloomberg Information reported on Friday, citing an individual accustomed to the matter.
Earlier this month, Oracle alerted some healthcare clients that someday after January 22, hackers accessed its servers and copied affected person information to an out of doors location, the report mentioned, including that the hack was aimed toward extorting a number of medical suppliers within the US.
The FBI declined to remark. Oracle didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
The report mentioned it was not clear what number of affected person information have been breached and which healthcare suppliers have been focused.
Austin, Texas-based Oracle acquired the US healthcare IT firm Cerner Company for $28bn in 2022, which bolstered the corporate’s involvement within the digital well being report sector and certain elevated the variety of healthcare purchasers on its cloud platform.
The acquisition got here with a $16bn contract with the US division of veterans affairs, which has seen extremely publicised outages and legislator scrutiny, in response to the report.
The corporate instructed clients the hackers accessed older Cerner servers, taking information that had not but been shifted to Oracle’s cloud storage service, the report mentioned.
Oracle mentioned it turned conscious of the breach round February 20, in response to the report.
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