Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria clinic

The organisation is known as Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria clinic, also referred to as Santa Maria clinic, headquartered in Italy. It operates as a healthcare provider delivering medical services to patients. The 2016 incident involved hacktivist groups Anonymous Italia and AntiSec-Italia breaching its systems as part of the #OpSafePharma campaign. The attackers defaced its public website and leaked internal data including employee CVs, patient application scans, and inventory documents. The compromised data amounted to approximately 2.5 gigabytes, which analysts described as opportunistic rather than strategically coordinated.

This breach followed earlier phases of the campaign that included distributed denial-of-service attacks against Italian health authorities and other data breaches targeting medical institutions. The event highlights the organisation's exposure to cyber threats within the Italian healthcare sector. No further details about its size, specialisation, ownership, or parent-subsidiary relationships are provided in the source material. The breach was part of a broader #OpSafePharma campaign that targeted four Italian healthcare organizations in protest of national ADHD treatment policies favoring medication over alternative therapies. The incident underscores the vulnerability of healthcare institutions to politically motivated cyber attacks.