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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

Krebs on Security

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. Image: Tamer Tuncay, Shutterstock.com. million individuals.

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LCMHS hospital suffered a Ransomware attack at Louisiana hospital that impacted 270,000 patients

Security Affairs

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) suffered a ransomware attack that impacted 270,000 patients. The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. Health insurance information. Physical addresses. Dates of birth. Medical records.

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Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The largest hospital in New Jersey announced on Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its network and that it paid a ransom. The largest hospital in New Jersey, the Hackensack Meridian Health, was the victim of a ransomware attack last week that disrupted its network, the IT staff decided to pay the ransom to decrypt the files.

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Maryland Court Finds Coverage for Lost Data and Slow Computers After Ransomware Attack

Hunton Privacy

As previously posted on our Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , a Maryland federal court awarded summary judgment to policyholder National Ink in National Ink and Stitch, LLC v. This is significant because it demonstrates that insureds can obtain insurance coverage for cyber attacks even if they do not have a specific cyber insurance policy.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 463 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

France Travail data breach impacted 43 Million people Scranton School District in Pennsylvania suffered a ransomware attack Lazarus APT group returned to Tornado Cash to launder stolen funds Moldovan citizen sentenced in connection with the E-Root cybercrime marketplace case UK Defence Secretary jet hit by an electronic warfare attack in Poland Cisco (..)

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

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