- CrowdStrike Cybersecurity, headquartered in Australia, caused businesses, services and governments shutdowns around the world
- Claims the disruption was caused when it pushed out a faulty patch to its customers worldwide
- Temporarily shut down airports, hospitals, 911 services and much more
- Former CrowdStrike executive stated; “Here’s what I think I know so far: Everybody runs CrowdStrike (if you don’t, lots of your partners do). Most customers have endpoint sensors set to auto-update. Bad-sensor update jammed up Windows machines. New/improved update now deployed. But customers often have to reboot machine to fix problem. Some have to boot to “safe-mode” and remove offending file. Reports now that some adversaries posing as “CrowdStrike Support” are reaching out to customers offering help — stay a little paranoid about who you are communicating with”
- Healthcare systems that went offline include:
- Mass General Brigham
- Penn Medicine
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
- Michigan Medicine
- Mount Sinai Hospital and Hospital for Special Surgery
- Baylor Scott & White of Texas
- RWJBarnabas Health of New Jersey
- Emory Healthcare of Georgia
- Norton Healthcare of Kentucky
- UVA Health of Virginia
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center
- University of Miami’s UHealth
- UnitedHealth Group may have total costs of $2.45 billion to recover from the recent ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare division.
- Rite Aid Pharmacy Stores, headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, notified 2.2 million patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack from RansomHub hacking group.
- InHouse Physicians of Naperville, IL notified 148,000 patients that their PHI was inadvertently exposed on the Internet.
- Disney Corp. is notifying an unknown number of customers that their info may have been stolen by NullBulge hacking group.
- Bassett Furniture of Virginia, which has 100 locations, notified an unknown number of customers that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Pueblo County School District of Colorado notified an unknown number of students that
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