Texas pediatric orthopedics clinic says hack affects 140,000

Ransomware group Qilin posted at least 42 gigabytes of data stolen from a Texas pediatric orthopedic practice for sale on its darkweb leak site in February. In recent days, Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics began notifying more than 140,000 people that their data was compromised by hackers.

Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics reported the hacking incident to federal regulators on April 4 as involving Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics’ network server. In an earlier breach report filed on March 6 with the Texas attorney general, the practice said the incident affected 90,000 Texas residents. The group on Monday told Maine’s attorney general the incident affected 140,121 people, including nine residents of Maine.

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