AMPATH Laboratories, one of South Africa’s largest pathology service providers, says it was the target of a cyberattack with the attacker claiming that more than 80 million patient records were exfiltrated. The claim comes from ByteToBreach, a threat actor previously linked to other Africa-wide incidents, who said on a hacker forum on 13 October 2026 that the company had been compromised and that screenshots of the attack had been published.
Ampath has acknowledged that it was targeted and that the incident likely resulted in a compromise of patient data. The report notes that the attacker’s claim and published screenshots constitute the available evidence at this time, with further details and confirmation pending from Ampath and a full technical investigation. No specific vulnerabilities or technical mechanisms are described in the article, and there is no independently verified data on the scope of the breach beyond the attacker’s claim.