May 21 (SeeNews) - Germany-based kidney dialysis services provider Fresenius Medical Care said on Thursday that patient data from some of its dialysis centres in Serbia leaked after a hacker attack.
"The company’s understanding is that this is associated with the IT incident which affected parts of Fresenius’s IT environment a few weeks ago and that hackers were able to steal certain data," Fresenius said in a statement.
Fresenius has filed a complaint against the unknown attackers with the public prosecutor in Germany and will contact the patients who are affected by the illegal data publication.
The company’s operations in Serbia continue and the care of patients has been safeguarded, it added.
Fresenius is active in Serbia through local subsidiary Fresenius Medical Care Srbija which supplies dialysis centres with dialysis machines, consumables, and reproductive material and performs complete consignment services.