"Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by
pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on
more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a
ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records,
according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for
leaked documents.
Wikileaks reports that the Web site for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program
was defaced last week with a message claiming that the database of
prescriptions had been bundled into an encrypted, password-protected
file.
Wikileaks has published a copy of the ransom note left in place of
the PMP home page, a message that claims the state of Virginia would
need to pay the demand in order to gain access to a password needed to
unlock those records:
"I have your [expletive] In *my* possession, right now, are
8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions.
Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original.
Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing,
too. Uhoh :(For $10 million, I will gladly send along the password.""
Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/hackers_break_into_virginia_he.html
