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Ascension reports cybersecurity incident, possible data breach

Posted on May 8, 2024 by Dissent

Caroline Hudson reports: Ascension has detected a cybersecurity incident that is disrupting its clinical operations, and has advised business partners to disconnect from its systems. The nonprofit health system said Wednesday it had discovered “unusual activity” on select network systems that it believes is due to a cybersecurity event. An Ascension spokesperson did not respond to…

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Guardant notifies patients of unintended information exposure going back to October 2020

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Dissent

A notification by Guardant Health, Inc. in California (“Guardant”) caught DataBreaches’ eye yesterday. Guardant is a laboratory that performs cancer screening tests on samples received from its physician and hospital partners. Patient information that they received may have been inadvertently exposed between October 5, 2020 and February 29, 2024. They explain: Guardant recently determined that…

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More than 380,000 additional NYC students had info breached in 2022 Illuminate Education hack

Posted on May 6, 2024 by Dissent

Carl Campanile reports: More than 380,000 additional city public-school students had their personal data hacked in a massive cyber attack — bringing the total number of kids affected to well over 1 million, The Post has learned. The New York City Department of Education last week began sending letters notifying the hundreds of thousands of additional current and…

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Fred Hutch notifies more patients of November 2023 attack (1)

Posted on May 5, 2024 by Dissent

In December 2023, UW’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center  (“Fred Hutch”) reported a November cyberattack that involved the exfiltration of patient data and attempted extortion of patients. DataBreaches contacted Fred Hutch on December 8 to ask whether the attackers had encrypted their files and whether they had negotiated with the threat actors. They did not reply….

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CISA’s KEV catalog making a positive difference to defenders

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Dissent

Jonathan Greig reports that a CISA resource is having a positive effect at both a federal level as well as for non-governmental organizations: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has run its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog for nearly three years and it has quickly become the go-to repository for software and hardware bugs actively being exploited by hackers around the world. Experts…

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Former Cybersecurity Consultant Arrested For $1.5 Million Extortion Scheme Against IT Company

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Dissent

For those who would like a timely reminder about making sure you terminate access and take control of devices immediately when an employee or contractor terminates employment, consider this press release from the Southern District of New York on May 1. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced…

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