By Giulia Petroni 
 

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. said Thursday that patient data from some of its dialysis centers in Serbia has been illegally published following a recent 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," the German provider of health products and services said, adding the investigation is continuing.

The company also said it has filed a complaint against the unknown attackers with the public prosecutor in Germany and will cooperate with relevant authorities.

Operations in Serbia will continue and specialists are currently working to prevent further attacks or unauthorized data access, according to Fresenius Medical Care.

 

Write to Giulia Petroni at giulia.petroni@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

May 21, 2020 07:39 ET (11:39 GMT)

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