9 Million Patients’ Data Exposed by Ransomware Attack on US Dental Giant

A ransomware attack may have compromised nearly nine million individuals’ personal information in the United States. This is due to the harm caused by an apparent attack on a dental health insurer — one of the country’s largest.

According to Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental, a multinational dental insurance company headquartered in the United States, the company took notice of certain activities in its computer system on March 6, 2023. MCNA immediately stopped those activities and began an investigation.

As a result, despite those steps being taken, the LockBit ransomware – which acquired responsibility for the attack – is making a comeback with a threat to leak 700GB of data stolen from MCNA’s network if the company does not pay the attackers a $10 million ransom. To allow anyone to download all of the data, reports suggest the group released the data on its website on April 7 for anyone to download.

There are several dental insurers in the United States. However, Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental claims to be the nation’s largest dental insurer for children and seniors covered by government-sponsored plans. Among the notices the company posted on Friday, it stated it became aware on March 6 that “certain activities in our computer system took place without our permission” and that the company had decided to take action. After it was discovered that a hacker

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