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Norway Suffers Healthcare Data Breach

An unknown hacker or group of hackers managed to breach the systems of Health South-East Regional Health Authority (RHF) and reportedly stolen personal info and health records of some 2.9 million Norwegians out of the country’s total 5.2 million inhabitants.

Health South-East RHA is a healthcare organization that manages hospitals in Norway’s southeast region, including Østfold, Akershus, Oslo, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder.

The healthcare organization announced the data breach after it had been alerted by HelseCERT, the Norwegian CERT department for its healthcare sector, about an “abnormal activity” against computer systems in the region.