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Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson

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Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2026-08-31

Date Updated: 2026-09-05

Author: Zack Whittaker

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ShinyHunters claims to have breached McKesson by using phishing and social engineering to access cloud-hosted Snowflake and Salesforce environments, exfiltrating millions of rows of patient and employee data including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medications and patient notes; the group has demanded a ransom (reported as $55 million) and shared samples with reporters, while McKesson confirmed unauthorized access and intermittent service impacts.

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