{"id":218859,"date":"2026-02-27T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/notice-of-uh-cancer-center-cyberattack-affecting-personal-information\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:05:23","slug":"notice-of-uh-cancer-center-cyberattack-affecting-personal-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/notice-of-uh-cancer-center-cyberattack-affecting-personal-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of UH Cancer Center cyberattack affecting personal information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/27\/notice-of-cyberattack-uh-cancer-center\/\">Notice of UH Cancer Center cyberattack affecting personal information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/27\/notice-of-cyberattack-uh-cancer-center\/\">https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/27\/notice-of-cyberattack-uh-cancer-center\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 16:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.hawaii.edu\">www.hawaii.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Cancer Center\u2019s Epidemiology Division was the victim of a cyberattack that possibly exposed records containing Social Security numbers (SSNs) and driver\u2019s license (DL) numbers, mostly from <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> DL records collected in 2000 from the State Department of Transportation (when identifiers were usually SSNs) and City and County of Honolulu voter registration records collected in 1998 (also when identifiers were usually SSNs).<\/p>\n<p>The <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> DL and Honolulu voter registration records were primarily used to recruit research study participants, principally for the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) Study. The MEC Study was established in 1993 and recruited more than 215,000 men and women, aged 45 to 75 years, between 1993 and 1996 from five main ethnic\/racial groups who were residents of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> and Los Angeles, California.  Some of the exposed files also included research data with health-related information on study participants and certain other individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The MEC Study participants potentially impacted a total 87,493 individuals. Additional individuals whose personal information may have been included in the historical driver\u2019s license and voter registration records with SSN identifiers number approximately 1.15 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There was no impact to information held by the UH Cancer Center\u2019s Clinical Trials operations, patient care, or any other divisions of the UH Cancer Center. There was no impact to UH student records.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UH Cancer Center deeply regrets that this incident occurred and that so many individuals have been impacted,\u201d said Naoto T. Ueno, director of the UH Cancer Center. \u201cWe take this matter extremely seriously and are committed to transparency, accountability and strengthening protections for the research data entrusted to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What happened and data involved<\/h2>\n<p>During the cyberattack, an unauthorized third party encrypted and potentially exfiltrated data containing personal information. 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