- Microsoft reveals volume of its security incident monitoring:
- Monitor 24 trillion security signals per day
- 200,000 detection failures per day
- Black River Falls School District of Wisconsin notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after cyber incident.
- Abraham Oliver was sentenced to 61 months in federal prison in Maryland for buying identities on the Dark Web and using to get credit cards to fraudulently obtain funds.
- Whitefish School District of Montana notified an unknown number of students that their info was exposed after data breach.
- Bloomberg News published results of survey:
- 80% of companies expect to increase technology spend in 2022
- 72% will increase budget by 9% or more
- 53% feel cyber threats are higher this year
- 87% report that cybersecurity is important to business
- Advanced Medical Practice Management of New Jersey notified an unknown number of patients that their PHIwas exposed after cyber attack.
- Snap-On Tools Corp. of Kenosha, WI notified an unknown number of customers that their info was exposed after ransomware attack.
- 44% increase of insider-caused breaches in past year, according to Ponemon Institute survey
- Negligence = 56%
- Average cost = $484,931
- Malicious/criminal = 26%
- Average cost = $648,062
- Negligence = 56%
- MetroHealth of Cleveland, OH notified 1,700 patients that their PHI was exposed after a “data breach”
- Ballad Health of Johnson City, Tennessee notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- SummaCare, headquartered in Akron, Ohio, notified 1,100 patients that their PHI was exposed after data breach.
- Wellstar Health of Atlanta, Georgia notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
- SuperCare Health, headquartered in Downey, CA notified 318,379 patients that their PHI was exposed after cyber attack.
- Colorado Physician Partners, headquartered in Denver, CO, notified 12,877 patients that their PHI was exposed after email phishing attack.
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