- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Caesars Casino/Resorts in Las Vegas paid $15 million in ransom to hackers to regain control of their network.
- Hackers originally demanded $30 million in ransom
- MGM Casino Resorts in Las Vegas claims that it lost $4.2 million to $8.4 million per day as a result of ransomware attack.
- Clorox Corp. notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack that shut down some of the production of cleaning products.
- Nuance Software, maker of Dragon voice-to-text solutions, notified 14 hospitals in North Carolina and an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after ransomware attack.
- TransUnion notified 58,505 customers across the U.S. that their info was stolen by hackers.
- Carthage Area Hospital of New York and Claxton Hepburn Medical Center of New York refused to pay the ransom demanded by hackers after recent breach that exposed the PHI of an unknown number
of patients. - Hill, Farrer & Burrill Law Firm of Los Angeles, CA has been sued for alleged negligence over a breach that exposed info on an unknown number of clients.
- Hillsborough County Public Schools of Florida notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after 2 terabytes of data was stolen by hackers.
- Lakeland Community College of Ohio notified 290,000 students that their info was exposed after data breach.
- Marymount Manhattan College of New York will spend $3.5 million on cybersecurity solutions after a recent breach exposed info on 100,000 students.
- Crown Point Community Schools of Indiana stated that the recent cyber attack cost at least $1 million to resolve.
- The City of Pittsburgh of Kansas notified 20,000 citizens that their info was exposed after cyber attack.
- Pain Care Specialists of Oregon notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Leander Independent School District of Texas notified 207 students that their info was exposed after FERPA breach.
- National Student Clearinghouse notified students in 900 schools across the USA that their info may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- Mulkay Cardiology Consultants of New Jersey notified 30,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- Abraham Teklu Lemma was arrested for allegedly stealing and sending classified info to the country of Ethopia, while he was working as an IT administrator for federal State Department and the Department of Justice.
- AmeriBen, a medical benefits administration services firm headquartered in Meridian, Idaho, notified 74,884 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- Sanford Health of North Dakota notified 21,211 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Delta Dental of California, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, notified 152,818 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
- SightPath Medical of Minneapolis, MN notified an unknown number of patients of Sutter North Surgery Center of Yuba City, CA that their PHI was exposed after breach.
- Visiting Physicians Network of Texas notified 1,160 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack.
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