- Acadian Ambulance Services, headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, notified 11 million patients in the southeastern US that their PHI was exposed after a ransomware attack.
- Hackers are demanding $7 million in ransom
- Suffolk County government in New York announced that recent ransomware attack cost the taxpayers $25 million to resolve issues caused after info on 470,000 residents was exposed.
- Jefferson County government of Kentucky notified an unknown number of residents that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- Los Angeles County Superior Court of California has notified an unknown number of citizens after a ransomware attack temporarily shut down 36 courthouses last week.
- Los Angeles County Department of Health in California notified 41,444 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Dell & Dean Law Firm, headquartered in New York City, NY, notified 6,803 clients that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Medibase Group Software of Woodstock, Georgia notified 35,106 patients that their PHI was exposed after a cyber attack.
- Smith, Gambrell & Russell Law Firm of Atlanta, Georgia notified 3,370 clients that their info was exposed after cyber attack.
- UnitedHealth Group Insurance was hit by a lawsuit from 39 healthcare providers and pharmacists after recent huge breach at its Change Health division
- Alleging negligence and demanding an unspecified amount in damages
- Two Russians pleaded guilty to being a part of the Lockbit hacking group that extorted $500 million in ransom from healthcare facilities in the U.S.
- Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov and Mikhail Vasiliev
- Case being heard in U.S. District Court of New Jersey
- University of Wisconsin notified over 160,000 students that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack from Russian hackers.
- Top secret documents from the Pentagon may have been stolen after a cyber attack hit Leidos Corp, which is a federal government contractor
- May also include Department of Homeland Security and NASA- MCG Health Software of Seattle, WA will pay $8.8 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged negligence regarding a data breach that exposed PHI of 793,283 patients after cyber attack.
- Financial Business and Consumer Solutions Inc., a bill collector in Hatboro, PA, notified 117,567 patients of CommonSpirit Health that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Michigan Medicine notified 56,953 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attacks.
- MNGI Digestive Health of Minnesota notified 767,670 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Therapeutic Health Services of Seattle, WA notified 14,164 patients their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, NY, notified 12,274 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department, notified an unknown number of citizens that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- New Jersey Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery notified 74,413 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
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