1.2 Million Impacted As Heartless Hackers Attack Cancer Center In Ransomware Breach

Even in the world of cyber-criminals, there are some targets that simply won't earn you any admiration. One such case is a cyber attack involving the University of Hawaii's Cancer Center Epidemiology Division, with the data targeted including the social security numbers and driver's licenses of somewhere between 87K (MEC Study pool) to 1,15 million individuals.

Fortunately, the attack had no impact on patient care or information held by Clinical Trials or student records, but the exact nature of the ransomware attack lends uncertainty to how much, if any of the data was properly exfiltrated before decryption. The attack occurred in August 2025 and, at least to date, no confirmed leak or abuse of the data has yet been confirmed.

Even so, the University did put out a notice for potentially affected individuals, offering 12 months of free credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft ...