- Ransomware report published by SonicWall:
- 67.6% of ransomware attacks are aimed at U.S.
- 421.5 million hits last year, up 98%
- Average of 2,170 ransomware attacks per customer
- 20 attempts per second
- Griggsville-Perry Public School District of Illinois notified an unknown number of students that their info may have been exposed online after ransomware attack.
- Suggested selling prices of offering a cyber security audit from ConnectWise:
- $100 for every router, server, switch and firewall
- $25 per user/employee
- New York City Public Schools are notifying 820,000 current and former students that their info was exposed after a vendor, lluminate Education of California, was hit by cyber attack
- Through it Skedula and PupilPath platforms
- The Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant in Kansas notified local citizens that hackers from Russia attempted to disrupt operations.
- Highmark Health, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, notified 67,147 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Chelan Douglas Health District of East Wenatchee, Washington, notified 109,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- New Jersey Brain and Spine of Oradell, New Jersey notified 92,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Business email compromise attached are the most expensive form of hacking, according to a report from FBI:
- Total of $2.4 billion in damages in 2021
- Up from $1.8 billion in 2020
- 50 million patients in the U.S. had their PHI (protected health information) breached in 2021, according to report from Politico magazine.
- 75% as a result of hacking
- Audrain Community Hospital and Callaway Community Hospital of Mexico, Missouri both notified an unknown number of patients that they suffered from an “IT outage”
- Brandon Livas, Royale Lassai & Ashley Green pleaded guilty to stealing PHI from a medical clinic in Metairie, Louisiana and selling it for profit.
- Wheeling Health Right of West Virginia notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- 38,418 patients, including Major League Baseball players, were notified by Horizon Actuarial Services of Georgia that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Central Indiana Orthopedics notified 83,705 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- 1 million patients, including many National Basketball Association players, were notified by JDC Healthcare Management of Texas that their PHI may have been exposed after “malware incident”
- Microsoft Corp. admitted it was a target of Lapsus$ cyberattack, led by a 16 year old boy in England.
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