{"id":153639,"date":"2025-09-04T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=153639"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:01:29","slug":"ransomware-attack-on-dutch-lab-exposes-data-of-941000-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2025\/09\/04\/ransomware-attack-on-dutch-lab-exposes-data-of-941000-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware attack on Dutch lab exposes data of 941,000 patients\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A Dutch laboratory responsible for a significant portion of the country&#8217;s cervical cancer screenings has been hit by a ransomware attack, compromising the data of 941,000 patients. The incident highlights the growing vulnerability of critical healthcare infrastructure to cyber extortion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ransomware group, identified as Nova, has threatened to leak the patient data on the dark web, raising serious ethical and security concerns for the organisation and the public. The lab, Clinical Diagnostics, has not commented on whether a ransom was paid to prevent the data leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The compromised data includes sensitive information related to cervical cancer screenings, posing a significant risk of a large-scale data breach that could affect a substantial portion of the population.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clinical Diagnostics issued a statement about the breach, noting: &#8220;Previously, we indicated that we have no indications that the attacker will proceed to leak the copied data. We are aware of the fact that the attacker is once again threatening to leak copied data. This new development obviously has our attention. As indicated earlier, we cannot provide further information regarding certain details.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch laboratory responsible for a significant portion of the country&#8217;s cervical cancer screenings has been hit by a ransomware attack, compromising the data of 941,000 patients. The incident highlights the growing vulnerability of critical healthcare infrastructure to cyber extortion. The ransomware group, identified as Nova, has threatened to leak the patient data on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4017,"featured_media":153645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21064,17482,14589,18793,86,15,93],"tags":[22947,22949,4969,564,1843,168,2038,88,4819,22948,300,1268],"class_list":["post-153639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-cybersecurity","category-data","category-europe","category-healthcare","category-netherlands","category-top-stories","tag-cervical-cancer-screening","tag-clinical-diagnostics","tag-cyberattack","tag-cybersecurity","tag-dark-web","tag-data-breach","tag-data-privacy","tag-healthcare","tag-netherlands","tag-nova-ransomware","tag-patient-data","tag-ransomware"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153648,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153639\/revisions\/153648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}