A cloud services firm has turned over to a New York hospital alliance the patient data stolen in a ransomware attack by LockBit. The hospital group had filed a lawsuit against LockBit as a legal maneuver to force the storage firm to return data the cybercriminals had stashed on the vendor's servers.
A Mississippi health system is notifying nearly 253,000 individuals that their data was potentially compromised in a "malicious and sophisticated ransomware" attack last August that also took IT systems offline. The cybercriminal gang Rhysida had claimed responsibility for the assault.
The Department of Defense released a 60-page strategy that aims to modernize the defense industrial ecosystem and focuses on four long-term strategic priorities: improving supply chain resilience, enhancing workforce readiness, streamlining acquisitions and refining economic deterrence measures.
A fertility testing laboratory has agreed to improve its data security practices and pay up to $1.25 million to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2021 ransomware attack that compromised sensitive health information of about 350,000 patients.
Cloud migration has been an important aspect of government agencies' IT modernization journey, with applications and operations shifting to the cloud. Modern workforce trends have government workers operating in hybrid environments. These shifts offer increased flexibility but the downside of an expanded attack...
Fraudsters have long relied on mule accounts to deposit proceeds from a variety of scams, but financial crimes investigators are seeing a shift to dropped accounts, which can be opened and quickly discarded to evade detection by law enforcement, said M&T Bank's Karen Boyer.
Merck & Co.'s proposed settlement with insurers over a $1.4 billion claim related to the NotPetya attack will change the language the insurance industry uses to exclude acts of war in its policies, and organizations need to consider how those changes affect risk, said attorney Peter Halprin.
Cybercriminals are extorting some patients and threatening them with swatting in the wake of a recent cyberattack on a Seattle cancer center. The incident, stemming from a Citrix Bleed exploit, has triggered multiple lawsuits and affected the personal data of at least 1 million people.
Fallout is mounting, and new developments are emerging in several high-profile health data hacks. Data breaches reported in recent weeks and months at a medical transcription vendor, a hospital chain and a law firm are affecting a growing list of clients and individuals - and triggering lawsuits.
A federally funded health center that provides services to underserved communities in New York has been fined up to $450,000 and must invest $1.2 million in improving its data security, under a settlement with state regulators involving a 2021 ransomware attack that affected about 261,000 people.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has wrapped up its investigation of the xDedic dark web marketplace and successfully dismantled the multinational criminal organizations, leading to charges against 19 individuals, including administrators, developers and customer service reps.
Iranian hackers targeted the Albanian Parliament using the No-Justice Wiper and other commonly used tools. Albania had severed diplomatic ties with Iran following a July cyberattack that disrupted the country's online governmental services portal.
It's a new year, but federal regulators are beating an old HIPAA drum: The Department of Health and Human Services has hit a New Jersey medical practice with a $160,000 settlement in the agency's 46th enforcement action involving HIPAA complaint about right of access to health records.
Accenture has finalized its acquisition of U.K. tech consultancy firm 6point6, which specializes in cybersecurity, cloud and digital transformation solutions. The acquisition will add 6point6's 400 staffers to Accenture in support of its business in the U.K. market.
An upstate New York hospital group has filed a lawsuit against cybercriminal group LockBit in a legal maneuver aimed at forcing a Boston-based cloud services firm to turn over patient data LockBit had stolen from the entities last summer and allegedly stored on the tech company's servers.
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