- “We estimate that ransomware attacks killed between 42 and 67 Medicare patients”, in a report published by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- In 2023, 2,207 hospitals, schools and governments were directly impacted by ransomware.
- Fallon Ambulance Service of Boston, Massachusetts notified 911,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- KCTV is reporting that Liberty Hospital of Missouri is cutting employee hours as a result of cyber attack that hit hospital in 12/2023.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center of Seattle, WA reports that hackers threatened to “swat” patients if hospital did not pay ransom after ransomware attack in 12/2023.
- HealthEC Software of Edison, New Jersey notified 4,452,782 patients that their PHI may have been exposed after cyber attack.
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a law firm headquartered in San Francisco, CA, disclosed that more than 600,000 individuals were impacted by a data breach that happened in early 2023.
- Carthage (N.Y.) Area Hospital, Ogdensburg, N.Y.-based Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center and Watertown, N.Y.-based North Country Orthopaedic Group filed a lawsuit Nov. 29 alleging that the unknown individuals "conspired to carry out the complex cybercrime and movement of stolen
assets."- lawsuit against the LockBit members was initiated to empower the hospital group, known asNorth Star Health Alliance, to issue a subpoena compelling Boston-based cloud storage firm Wasabi Technologies to surrender data that LockBit stole from the hospital group in a data breach that took place on Aug. 31.
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