Security News > 2023 > December > Hospitals ask courts to force cloud storage firm to return stolen data
Two not-for-profit hospitals in New York are seeking a court order to retrieve data stolen in an August ransomware attack and now stored on the servers of a Boston cloud storage company.
The LockBit ransomware gang claimed responsibility for breaching and stealing sensitive files from their systems in late August, with a press release published by the hospitals one week later saying the incident forced them to redirect patients requiring urging care to other hospitals' emergency departments.
While investigating the incident with the FBI's help, the hospitals found that the data stolen by Lockbit's affiliates is now stored on the servers of Wasabi Technologies, a cloud storage company in Boston, Massachusets.
In a bid to recover the stolen data from Wasabi's servers, the hospitals have now taken legal action against the cybercriminals who stole the files, asking the court to order Wasabi to return the stolen data to the North Star Health Alliance hospitals and issue an order requiring the ransomware group to destroy all the copies they made.
According to court documents, the cloud storage firm has already provided the FBI with copies of the data requested by the hospitals.
"The Hospital Group requires injunctive relief against the Defendants and other entities, preventing the access, transfer or duplication of the Stolen Data and requiring that, after the Stolen Data is returned to the Hospital Group, all other copies of the Stolen Data be destroyed," the complaint reads.