Breaches and incidents
Asahi Kasei Therapeutics: Pharma DIGITAL HCP portal database breached at operator, up to about 514,000 doctors’ records
The company said its operator Iyaku Joho Net reported on 2 Oct that a cyberattack accessed the member database linked to Pharma DIGITAL.
- Disclosed
- Verification
- Checked against a primary source
What happened
- The company said its operator Iyaku Joho Net reported on 2 Oct that a cyberattack accessed the member database linked to Pharma DIGITAL; up to about 514,000 healthcare professionals’ names, facility, address, job and department, email and other data for about 44,000 of them, and name, email and photo of about 700 employees may have been viewed or taken.
- Root cause: not disclosed; the access route has been fixed.
- No attacker named.
- The site was shut down, authorities notified, and affected people will be emailed; no misuse confirmed.