If the hackers really got access to personal details, that can be quite serious.
A months-long cyberattack on the University of California, Los Angeles hospital system put at risk the personal information for up to 4.5 million people, officials said Friday.
UCLA Health said in a statement that while there’s no evidence hackers acquired personal or medical data, it can’t be ruled out yet.
Officials said they were working with the FBI to track the source of the attacks.
The FBI said in a statement that the agency was looking into the nature and scope of the cyberattack, as well as the person or group responsible.
UCLA Health includes four hospitals
a) Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center;
b) UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica;
c) Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA;
and
d) Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
— and more than 150 primary and specialty offices throughout Southern California.
The WikiLeaks report, released on Wednesday, suggests NSA spying on German officials went on far longer and more widely than previously thought. The website published a new list of German phone numbers it claims showed the NSA targeted the officials for surveillance.
The list of 56 partially redacted phone numbers includes those belonging to staff of the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as well as his predecessor, Helmut Kohl. Also on the list were numbers attributed to former diplomat Geza Andreas von Geyr, who now works for the Ministry of Defense, and Ronald Pofalla, who was the former head of Angela Merkel’s chancellery between 2009 and 2013.
WikiLeaks also gave a cell phone number it claimed was used by the German leader up until 2013…