New York City-based nonprofit healthcare organization Jewish Home Lifecare has revealed that a data breach disclosed earlier this year impacts more than 100,000 individuals.
Jewish Home Lifecare, which is now called The New Jewish Home and which specializes in providing healthcare services to the elderly, informed customers in February that it had discovered unusual activity on its network on January 7.
It said at the time that hackers may have gained access to information related to patients and other members of the community, including their name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, financial account information, payment card information, passport number, and medical record and medical treatment details.
Jewish Home Lifecare told the Maine Attorney General’s Office on Friday that the incident impacts just over 104,000 individuals.
The notification letter being sent out to each of the affected individuals confirms that threat actors accessed certain files on the organization’s network. Impacted people are being offered complimentary credit monitoring services.
“While there is no evidence to suggest that any information has been or will be fraudulently misused, we are providing this notification in an abundance of caution,” Jewish Home Lifecare said in its notification letter.
The ransomware group known as Alphv and BlackCat took credit for the attack on Jewish Home Lifecare in February 2024. The cybercriminals claimed at the time that they had obtained clinical research databases, financial documents, employee and client documents, and “documents proving misuse of donated funds”. The hackers posted several screenshots in an effort to demonstrate their claims.
It’s unclear if the stolen files were ever made public on the ransomware group’s website. BlackCat disappeared from the scene in early March in what appeared to be an exit scam, and its website is no longer accessible.
The ransomware operation had been targeted in a law enforcement operation a few months earlier.
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