March 28 (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation

(FBI) is probing the cyberattack at Oracle that has led

to the theft of patient data, Bloomberg News reported on Friday,

citing a person familiar with the matter.

Earlier this month, Oracle alerted some healthcare customers

that sometime after January 22, hackers accessed its servers and

copied patient data to an outside location, the report said,

adding that the hack was aimed at extorting multiple medical

providers in the United States.

The FBI declined to comment. Oracle did not immediately

respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

The report said it wasn't clear how many patient records

were breached and which healthcare providers were targeted.

Austin, Texas-based Oracle acquired the U.S. healthcare IT

company Cerner Corp for $28 billion in 2022, which bolstered the

company's involvement in the electronic health record sector and

likely increased the number of healthcare clients on its cloud

platform.

The purchase came with a $16 billion contract with the U.S.

Department of Veterans Affairs, which has seen highly publicized

outages and lawmaker scrutiny, according to the report.

The company told customers the hackers accessed older Cerner

servers, taking data that had not yet been shifted to Oracle's

cloud storage service, the report said.

Oracle said it became aware of the breach around February

20, according to the report.