A cyberattack against a medical software provider in Poland exposed medical and personal data of about 19 million people, today announced the Polish Government.
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12/08/2026
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O minister of Digitization, Krzysztof Gawkowski, said it was “one of the biggest cybersecurity incidents in Poland, a country of 37 million inhabitants.
“ Today, nothing indicates that we are facing an external attack (...) coming from Russia or from any other state”, said the minister, quoted by the agency France-Presse (AFP).
The Polish authorities have reported frequent computer attacks by Russia due to their support for Ukraine to face the Russian invasion launched in February 2022.
The first elements of the investigation point with priority to the cybercriminal track to act with financial objectives, said the minister.
Gawkowski excluded payment of any ransom and promised to pursue “without truce” the perpetrators of the attack.
The stolen data add up to about two ‘terabytes’ (TB, digital information storage unit).
They contain information related to medical consultations, prescriptions and other documents used to monitor patients.
The nature and size of the data compromised vary from person to person, said the Polish minister.
Gawkowski also announced the creation of a device that allows each person to verify whether their data was stolen or not.
About 12,000 medical structures used the services of the target company.