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  • Blackberry Research report:
    • 12 malware attacks per minute
    • U.S. is most targeted of all countries
    • 60% of all attacks are finance/healthcare/grocery industries
    • Top malware attack on healthcare from:
      • Emotet, RedLine, BlackCat, Royal, Cobalt Strike and Mallox
  • Critical Insight research published:
    • PHI stolen up 35%
    • 28 million patients impacted in last 6 months of 2022
  • Northwell Health of New York field a lawsuit against a former employee for illegally posting information on deceased patients.
  • Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA) published report detailing how adjacent emergency departments had their service disrupted after Scripps Health of San Diego suffered cyber attack.
  • Unique Imaging Clinics of Florida notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • University Urology Clinics of New York notified 58,816 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • BakerHostetler report published on breaches:
    • 45% of incidents started with network intrusion
    • 17% of incidents involved insider-caused breaches
    • 11% caused by unpatched vulnerabilities
    • 28% of hacks ended with ransomware deployments
    • 24% of all breaches in healthcare vertical (#1 target)
    • 67 days = average amount of time from discovery to notification of breach
    • $90,355 = average cost to investigate network instruction
    • $600,688 = average ransom paid
      • $1,562,141 = average ransom paid by health system
      • 40% = of all vertical market organizations pay the ransom
  • NationsBenefits Insurance notified 3 million customers that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
  • The federal Office for Civil Rights levied a $15,000 fine to Mente Psychotherapy Services of Pittsburgh, PA regarding HIPAA breach.
  • Socrates Academy Schools of Matthews, North Carolina notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after FERPA breach.
  • Movement Schools of Charlotte, North Carolina notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after FERPA breach.
    - Maxim HealthCare Services of California notified 28,425 patients that their PHI was exposed after breach.
  • SuperCare Health of California agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle lawsuit related to breach that exposed patients PHI.
  • Adna School District of Centralia, WA was defrauded $346,000 after an email phishing attack.
  • Joseph Sullivan, former CISO of Uber Corp. was sentenced to 3 years probation and $50,000 fine after a breach in 2022 exposed info on 57 million people.
  • Hillsborough County government offices in Florida notified an unknown number of citizens that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
  • U.S. Department of Transportation is notifying 237,000 federal employees that their personal was exposed after cyber attack.
  • Toyota notified owners of 2 million of its cars that their info was exposed after cyber attack.

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