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ShinyHunters Claims it Stole 284 Million Patient Records from McKesson
McKesson detected an intrusion on August 25 tied to third-party apps in its Oncology & Multispecialty and Medical-Surgical units. ShinyHunters vished McKesson employees, hijacked Okta SSO accounts, then pulled roughly a terabyte from Salesforce and Snowflake over four days. The group demanded $55,236,150 with a 72-hour deadline, which McKesson didn't pay. Breached data includes 284 million records containing SSNs, birth dates, Medicaid info, medical record numbers, medication/allergy data, and employee records.
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