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For hacked companies, paying a ransom may not work: Many say they paid but were attacked again

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dissent

Hiawatha Bray reports: To pay or not to pay? For organizations victimized by ransomware, that’s a tricky question that may not have a good answer. A report from the Boston tech security firm Cybereason argues that paying off cybercriminals may not get businesses off the hook. In a global survey of nearly 1,300 security professionals, two-thirds said…

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GA: Savannah hospital system experiences outage after ransomware attack

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dissent

Molly Curley, Alex Bozarjian The St. Joseph’s/Candler (SJ/C) hospital system in Savannah was the victim of a ransomware attack Thursday morning. WSAV spoke with a patient who says all computers went down around 4 a.m., and nurses have been forced to keep track of medications with a pen and paper. Read more on WAVY.

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Cruise Operator Carnival Discloses Personal Data Breach, Shares Down

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Cruise operator Carnival Corp said on Thursday it had detected unauthorized access to its computer systems in March, after which it alerted regulators and hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate the breach. The company, whose shares were down over 2%, noticed the suspicious activity on March 19 and acted quickly to “to shut…

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Reproductive Biology Associates and My Egg Bank notify 38,538 patients of ransomware incident

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dissent

Reproductive Biology Associates and its affiliate My Egg Bank North America issued a breach notification involving a ransomware incident that impacted the Atlanta entities. According to the notification submitted to Maine’s Attorney General’s Office and similar statements posted on their web sites, the entities first became aware of a potential data incident on April 16,…

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Lightfoot, Franklin & White notifies clients of ransomware incident

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dissent

Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC is a law firm based in Birmingham, Alabama that handles commercial litigation, product liability, professional liability, white-collar criminal, and other legal matters. In a copy of a notification obtained by DataBreaches.net, they forthrightly informed affected clients that there had been a ransomware incident: On April 17, 2021, we learned of…

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Se: Medhelp will pay 12 million SEK after the 1177 leak

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Dissent

SEK 12 million in penalty fees against the company Medhelp, half a million against the Stockholm Region and SEK 250,000 against each against Sörmland and Värmland. This is the outcome of the review made by the Privacy Protection Authority in the case of the millions of 1177 calls that were left unprotected on the internet….

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