- The San Francisco 49ers NFL football team notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- Suncoast Skin Solutions of Florida notified 57,730 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomwar attack.
- South City Hospital of St. Louis, Missouri, notified 21,601 patients that their PHI was exposed after server was stolen
- Colorado Department of Human Services notified 6,132 patients that their PHI after cyberattack.
- Sound Generations of Seattle, WA notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Raveco Medical of New York City, NY notified 4,897 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- The average ransom payment made to hackers is now $322,168 according to report published by Coveware.
- The total cost of an insider caused breaches in 2021 was $15.38 million, up from $11.45 million the year before, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan.
- Number of incidents increased by 44%
- Average cost of malicious user breach = $648,062
- $45,000 per hour is what midsize hospitals lose per hour according to research published by Ipsos Inc.
- Large hospitals - $21,500 per hour
- 91% of hackers driven by financial reward
- 49% admit that their budget for cybersecurity was not sufficient
- At least 45 million patients have had their PHI exposed from 2018-2021
- Advocates Inc. of Framingham, Massachusetts notified 68,236 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyberattack.
- Allegheny Health Network Home Infusion notified 7,500 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Memorial Hermann Health of Houston, TX notified 6,260 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Fiondella, Milone & LaSaracina Accountants of Glastonbury, CT notified 6,215 clients that their info was exposed after cyber attack.
- Ohlone College of Northern California notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after cyber attack.
- EasyVote Solutions, which managed voter registration info for state of Georgia, announced it had inadvertently exposed the info of an unknown number of voters on a publicly accessible website. - Puma, maker of athletic shoes, notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after a Kronos ransomware attack.
- Jeffery T. Henson was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in Illinois after being found guilty to stealing customer identities while working for Watchfire Signs of Danville, IL
- True Health New Mexico is being sued after a data breach exposed the PHI of 63,000 patients.
- Jax Spine and Pain Centers of Florida notified 262,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- AccelHealth, aka Cross Timbers Health Clinics of Texas, notified 48,126 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Pace Center for Girls in Jacksonville, FL, notified 18,300 students that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
- SentinelLabs is warning of a new ransomware hacking group named “ModifiedElephant” that is targeting law firms.
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