This morning, ransomware gang Interlock posted Kettering Health to its data leak site. It alleges to have stolen 941 GB of Kettering’s data, which includes 732,490 files across 20,418 folders and appears to contain ID cards, payment data, financial reports, and more.
In a blog post today, Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech, commented:
“Interlock first began adding victims to its data leak site in October 2024. As with most ransomware gangs today, it seeks a ransom payment for the decryption of systems and the deletion of stolen data. Since October 2024, we’ve tracked 17 confirmed attacks via this group and a further 22 unconfirmed attacks that haven’t been acknowledged by the organizations in question. Interlock was also responsible for the April 2025 attack on kidney dialysis firm DaVita. This too caused widespread disruption to patient care and saw a large breach of 1.5 TB of data.”
“2025 has already seen 26 confirmed attacks on US healthcare companies, as well as a further 92 unconfirmed. Other recently confirmed attacks include Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology, P.C. which was hit by SafePay in January 2025. This resulted in a data breach involving 235,911 people.”
“Over the last week, Bradford Health Services and Next Step Healthcare, LLC have started notifying patients of breaches stemming from older ransomware attacks. Bradford Health Services suffered an attack via Hunters International in December 2023 and has now confirmed 22,465 people were affected. Meanwhile, Next Step Healthcare, LLC has just started notifying 12,090 people of a breach following an attack via Qilin in June 2024.”
“As we are seeing with Kettering Health, ransomware attacks on healthcare companies have the potential to cause widespread disruption. Not only can they result in patient care being impacted after systems are encrypted, but the consequences are often felt months, and even years, afterward when data is stolen by hackers. In 2024 alone, nearly 27.3 million records were breached across 163 individual ransomware attacks on US healthcare companies.”
Once again, health care is the victim of a cyberattack. This isn’t a trivial event as any attack can cost lives potentially. More focus is needed to change this paradigm and that needs to happen fast.
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Interlock Claims Kettering Health Cyber Attack
This morning, ransomware gang Interlock posted Kettering Health to its data leak site. It alleges to have stolen 941 GB of Kettering’s data, which includes 732,490 files across 20,418 folders and appears to contain ID cards, payment data, financial reports, and more.
In a blog post today, Rebecca Moody, Head of Data Research at Comparitech, commented:
“Interlock first began adding victims to its data leak site in October 2024. As with most ransomware gangs today, it seeks a ransom payment for the decryption of systems and the deletion of stolen data. Since October 2024, we’ve tracked 17 confirmed attacks via this group and a further 22 unconfirmed attacks that haven’t been acknowledged by the organizations in question. Interlock was also responsible for the April 2025 attack on kidney dialysis firm DaVita. This too caused widespread disruption to patient care and saw a large breach of 1.5 TB of data.”
“2025 has already seen 26 confirmed attacks on US healthcare companies, as well as a further 92 unconfirmed. Other recently confirmed attacks include Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology, P.C. which was hit by SafePay in January 2025. This resulted in a data breach involving 235,911 people.”
“Over the last week, Bradford Health Services and Next Step Healthcare, LLC have started notifying patients of breaches stemming from older ransomware attacks. Bradford Health Services suffered an attack via Hunters International in December 2023 and has now confirmed 22,465 people were affected. Meanwhile, Next Step Healthcare, LLC has just started notifying 12,090 people of a breach following an attack via Qilin in June 2024.”
“As we are seeing with Kettering Health, ransomware attacks on healthcare companies have the potential to cause widespread disruption. Not only can they result in patient care being impacted after systems are encrypted, but the consequences are often felt months, and even years, afterward when data is stolen by hackers. In 2024 alone, nearly 27.3 million records were breached across 163 individual ransomware attacks on US healthcare companies.”
Once again, health care is the victim of a cyberattack. This isn’t a trivial event as any attack can cost lives potentially. More focus is needed to change this paradigm and that needs to happen fast.
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