Gurugram: Laptop stolen from FMRI's Blood bank, FIR lodged

Gurugram: A laptop containing confidential information was allegedly stolen from the offices of a private hospital's blood bank, police here said on Tuesday.   

According to a complaint filed by Dr Sangeeta Agarwal, head of the blood bank at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute, the laptop was stolen from her office on August 5.  

“The laptop contained official and confidential data of the blood bank,” Agarwal said in her complaint.

An FIR under Section 380 (theft in dwelling house, etc) of the Indian Penal Code was registered on the basis of her complaint at Sushant Lok police station on Monday, the police said.

The police are trying to identify the accused with the help of CCTV footage and they will be arrested soon, they added.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that after the massive ransomware attack crippled the nation's premier healthcare institution for days, a new case of a cyber attack has emerged on Tamil Nadu-based multispecialty hospital, Sree Saran Medical Center, as hackers are currently selling at least 1.5 lakh patients' data records for hundreds of dollars on the Dark Web, revealed cyber-security researchers. The stolen database is advertised for $100, meaning that multiple copies of the database would be sold. For actors seeking to be the exclusive owner of the database, the price is raised to $300, and if the owner intends to resell the database, the quoted price is $400. According to security researchers from AI-driven cyber-security firm CloudSEK, the data fields being sold on the Dark Web include patient name, guardian name, date of birth, doctor's details and address information. The data was allegedly sourced from a compromised third-party vendor, Three Cube IT Lab, the report claimed.