Hackers Threaten to Release Stolen Data From Planned Parenthood of Montana

Planned Parenthood of Montana announced connected Wednesday a “cybersecurity incident” that was archetypal identified connected August 28, according to a caller study from Cyberscoop. The healthcare enactment had astir 93 gigabytes of information stolen by hackers affiliated with RansomHub, who are reportedly giving Planned Parenthood until September 11 to wage an undisclosed magnitude oregon person each of the information leaked online.

Martha Fuller, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Montana, said successful a connection to EM360Tech that the enactment “immediately implemented our incidental effect protocols, including taking portions of our web offline arsenic a proactive information measure.”

It’s not instantly wide what benignant of information has been stolen and it’s chartless whether diligent files person been impacted. Planned Parenthood offers a wide scope of wellness services, but mainstream American perceptions typically subordinate the enactment lone with providing termination care. Whatever is yet leaked, if that does travel to pass, volition astir surely go a governmental shot successful today’s highly politicized environment.

Started successful February 2024, RansomHub works nether a “ransomware-as-a-service” model, encrypting and exfiltrating information from astatine slightest 210 known victims, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Those 2010 victims person been successful immoderate of the astir delicate areas of nationalist infrastructure and thing other that helps nine tally smoothly, according to the CISA, including, “water and wastewater, accusation technology, authorities services and facilities, healthcare and nationalist health, exigency services, nutrient and agriculture, fiscal services, commercialized facilities, captious manufacturing, transportation, and communications captious infrastructure sectors.”

Planned Parenthood acknowledged the beingness of the claims by RansomHub that it hacked the healthcare radical but didn’t corroborate oregon contradict RansomHub was really down the attack.

“We are alert of the RansomHub post, and privation to guarantee our assemblage that we are taking this substance precise seriously,” Fuller said. “We person reported this incidental to national instrumentality enforcement, and volition enactment their investigation.”

Abortion is simply a vitally important contented successful American life, particularly aft the U.S. Supreme Court decided successful 2022 to overturn 50 years of ineligible precedent by abolishing the national close to an termination recognized successful Roe v. Wade. The Dobbs determination has been a catastrophe for quality rights successful the U.S. and galore Americans are understandably upset astir having their rights stripped of them.

And it’s for that crushed galore governmental pundits judge termination volition beryllium a cardinal origin successful this November’s election. After all, erstwhile president Donald Trump was instrumental successful taking distant those rights by appointing 3 Supreme Court justices with views wholly extracurricular the mainstream. Trump is presently trailing his Democratic hostile Kamala Harris, who notably supports termination rights, successful the key battleground states that volition determine the election.

Planned Parenthood said connected Wednesday that the radical is moving to reconstruct its systems but there’s nary timeline connected erstwhile that whitethorn happen.

“We are grateful to our IT unit and cyber information partners, who are moving astir the timepiece to securely reconstruct impacted systems arsenic rapidly arsenic possible, and who are tirelessly investigating the origin and scope of the incident,” Fuller said. “That probe is ongoing.”

Planned Parenthood of Montana didn’t instantly respond to questions sent Thursday. Gizmodo volition update this station erstwhile we perceive back.