Thousands of patient records held for ransom in Ontario home care data breach, attackers claim

ronjor · Jul 17, 2018

Matthew Braga, Lori Ward, Andrew Culbert · CBC News · Posted: Jul 17, 2018

Data contained names and contact information for more than 80,000 patients, plus detailed medical histories
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guest · Feb 9, 2019

Update: Hackers release CarePartners employees’ wage statements and other financial files
February 8, 2019
https://www.databreaches.net/update...es-wage-statements-and-other-financial-files/

On February 6, this site broke the news that some data from the CarePartners hack of 2018 was being dumped publicly, presumably as a way to increase pressure on CarePartners to pay the “requested” fee for the hackers not to release any more data.

In response to my request for them to provide a working link for the first data dump, “Team Orangeworm” provided this site with another link to the 891 MB data dump. When extracted, the archive was 2.2 GB and contained 12,971 files in two folders, “FINANCE,” and “Scotia Reports.”
Because CarePartners declined to answer my questions but had indicated that they had not been able to verify the hackers’ claims in 2018, I am including a partial screenshot of the contents of the FINANCE folder: [...]

The hackers claim that they have three other dumps with employee and corporate files that they will release at some point. Perhaps those files contain more current financial and employee data.
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guest · Dec 6, 2021

CarePartners Privacy Breach Class Action Lawsuit Canada
November 18, 2021

The CarePartners privacy breach class action lawsuit seeks compensation on behalf of current and former CarePartners patients and staff in Canada whose personal information was implicated in the cyber-attack.

The action alleges that cyber hackers were able to exploit CarePartners’ inadequate and outdated security systems to access CarePartners’ computer network and as a result the personal information of patients and staff held in that system was inappropriately accessed by the hackers.
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A Settlement Has Been Reached
The parties have negotiated a settlement of this proposed class action. A copy of the Settlement Agreement can be viewed here.

The settlement must be approved by the Superior Court of Justice before it can be enforced. A hearing to certify the action as a class proceeding and to approve the settlement agreement has been scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 10:00 AM (ET) for one half day, via videoconference.
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CarePartners has agreed to pay up to $3.44 million to fully and finally settle the action, all inclusive. The Class will provide CarePartners with a full and final release in return.

The total amount paid by CarePartners will be based on the total number of people whose data was taken from CarePartners’ computer systems and then provided to the CBC by the hackers. The CBC has reported that it may have received the data of up to 80,000 individuals. If the data released to the CBC pertains to fewer than 45,000 individuals, then the settlement total will be reduced to $2.44 million.
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