The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the FBI published a warning that hackers see US holidays and weekends as a great time to launch attacks, including ransomware.
- 82% of healthcare organizations have experienced an IoT cyberattack in past 18 months, according to study conducted by Medigate and CrowdStrike.
- Oluwaseun Medayedupin of Nigeria was arrested for allegedly luring US companyemployees to deploy ransomware at the companies they work for.
- Was called a “partnership affiliate offer”, promising the employees up to 40% of the ransom collected
- Utah Imaging Associates, with facilities across Utah, notified 583,643 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- GoDaddy Corp., headquartered in Arizona, notified 1.2 million customers who use managed WordPress accounts of a breach.
- True Health of Albuquerque, New Mexico notified 63,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Huntington Hospital of Huntington, New York notified 13,000 patients that their PHI was exposed when it was illegally accessed by a former employee.
- Astoria Marketing of Delaware notified 940,000 consumers that their info may have been exposed after breach.
- Beaverhead County High School District of Montana notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Little Rock Police Department of Arkansas notified an unknown number of citizens that their info was exposed after it was illegally accessed by an employee.
- Rock Island County, City of Bettendorf and City of LeClaire, all of Illinois, were hit by cyberattacks which exposed info of an unknown number of citizens.
- West Virginia University Health System was hit by lawsuit regarding 7,445 patients having their PHI illegally accessed by a former employee.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals of Rockville, MD notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.