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  • Microsoft reveals volume of its security incident monitoring:
    • Monitor 24 trillion security signals per day
    • 200,000 detection failures per day
  • Black River Falls School District of Wisconsin notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after cyber incident.
  • Abraham Oliver was sentenced to 61 months in federal prison in Maryland for buying identities on the Dark Web and using to get credit cards to fraudulently obtain funds.
  • Whitefish School District of Montana notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after data breach.
  • Bloomberg News published results of survey:
    • 80% of companies expect to increase technology spend in 2022
    • 72% will increase budget by 9% or more
    • 53% feel cyber threats are higher this year
    • 87% report that cybersecurity is important to business
  • Advanced Medical Practice Management of New Jersey notified an unknown number of patients that their PHIwas exposed after cyber attack.
  • Snap-On Tools Corp. of Kenosha, WI notified an unknown number of customers that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • 44% increase of insider-caused breaches in past year, according to Ponemon Institute survey
    • Negligence = 56%
      • Average cost = $484,931
    • Malicious/criminal = 26%
      • Average cost = $648,062
  • MetroHealth of Cleveland, OH notified 1,700 patients that their PHI was exposed after a “data breach”
  • Ballad Health of Johnson City, Tennessee notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
  • SummaCare, headquartered in Akron, Ohio, notified 1,100 patients that their PHI was exposed after data breach.
  • Wellstar Health of Atlanta, Georgia notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
  • SuperCare Health, headquartered in Downey, CA notified 318,379 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
  • Colorado Physician Partners, headquartered in Denver, CO, notified 12,877 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.

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