Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-09-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Sandhills Medical Foundation
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Health Care and Social Assistance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. ("Sandhills") uses an outside vendor to provide electronic data storage for some of its scheduling, billing, and reporting systems.  On January 8, 2021, the vendor informed Sandhills that the vendor experienced a ransomware attack that affected Sandhills' systems and the data stored in them.