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Covenant Health ransomware exposes 478,000 patients
Hospital operations were also disrupted.
- Organisation
- Covenant Health
- Disclosed
- 2 January 2026
- Affected
- 478,188
- Data
- Personal and medical data
- Attacker
- Qilin
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM Alliance monthly roundup ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Covenant Health ransomware exposes 478,000 patients”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 2 Jan 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-01-02-covenant-health-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM Alliance monthly roundup, https://therecord.media/covenant-health-breach-qilin.
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