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Seattle cancer patients face blackmail threats after recent Fred Hutch data breach

By KIRO  
   December 08, 2023

As if battling cancer isn’t hard enough, now patients at UW’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center are being extorted. Last month, the Cancer Center experienced a data breach, exposing data for an unknown number of patients. Some of those patients are getting emails threatening to leak their personal information if they don’t pay up.

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