WeCureU Healthcare receives an email from a known reporter stating that they have information from credible sources that WeCureU has been a victim of a data breach, and the health records of hundreds of its patients are currently available on various Dark Net websites. The reporter is looking for a comment from WeCureU and plans to report the story soon. What should be WeCureU's response?

Answer:

The term data breach refers to intentional or accidential exposer of the confidential or sensitive data.Datas can be
related to the person health records or secret codes or passwords.

Dark net is a part of deep web. Dark Net are commonly used for illegal activities including illegal data exchange or exchange of illegal goods and services.

WeCureU should inform their own staff immediately about the whole situation, and ask Board of Directors to be prepared for the questions that might be asked from them.
Along with that there might be crisis where relation between the company and public are strained so company needs to prepare for that too.
After preparations are done to face the media WeCureU should give their official statement where they must not deny nor confirm the case rather they should let the public know that they are working with the authorities and looking into the matter.
Since the source is not known the company should try and persuade the reporter to provide any kind of lead regarding the source of the information.
Along with this the officials should their bit too to look into this matter and find out if the information is true.
If nothing works out and there is no information then the company should take legal help.