Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital: ransomware attack
Attackers exploited a medical-device maintenance VPN on January 26 and stole nurse-call server data on January 29. A failure revealed the attack on February 9; disclosure followed February 13. About 130,000 patient and 1,700 staff/clinical-student records leaked and were published. Nurse-call functions recovered and care continued. No intrusion into core electronic-record or billing systems, or leakage of clinical records, was found.
Disclosed
2026-02-13
Organizations involved
1
Leaked or at risk
130K
130,000
Downtime
Unknown
Timeline
- Started 2026-01-26
- Detected 2026-02-09
- Disclosed 2026-02-13
- 18 days
Attack or cause
- Method
- [Ransomware][Intrusion]
- Impact
- [Data leak][Service outage]
- Entry point
- VPN device
Data exposed or at risk
Organizations involved
[Breached][Critical]Kanagawa, Kawasaki, NakaharaMedical care and welfare
Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital
Sources
- [1][Official]当院へのサイバー攻撃による個人情報漏洩に関するご報告とお詫び(第5報)Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital · 2026-02-27
- [2][Official]当院へのサイバー攻撃による個人情報漏洩に関するご報告とお詫び(第7報)Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital · 2026-04-09