The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center confirmed hackers accessed the personal and sensitive health data of over 1.4 million individuals during a September cyberattack.
The cyberattack, which also affected TTUHSC’s El Paso campus, saw attackers steal information including Social Security numbers, financial account information, government-issued ID details, and health information — including medical records numbers, billing data, and diagnosis and treatment information the medical school said in a notice on a dedicated website. At the time of writing, the TTUHSC’s security incident website contains “noindex” code, which tells search engines to ignore the page, making it more difficult for affected individuals to find the website in search results.
A listing on the U.S. Department of Health’s data breach portal confirms that the university is notifying 1.46 million individuals that their information was compromised in the data breach.
As per Bleeping Computer, the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the cyberattack. In a post on its dark web leak site, seen by TechCrunch, the gang claims to have published 2.1 million files stolen from TTUHSC, totaling 2.6 terabytes of data.
