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Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans

The February ransomware attack on UHG-owned Change Healthcare stands as one of the largest-ever known digital thefts of U.S. medical records.

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Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans

Five takeaways from the indictment of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, the hacker who U.S. and U.K. authorities accuse of being the mastermind of the LockBit ransomware gang.

What we learned from the indictment of LockBit’s mastermind

An international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations about the…

Police resurrect LockBit’s site and troll the ransomware gang

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UnitedHealth data breach should be a wake-up call for the UK and NHS

The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, with CEO Andrew Witty confirming this week that it may impact as much as one-third of the country. But it should also…

8:43 am PDT • May 3, 2024
UnitedHealth data breach should be a wake-up call for the UK and NHS

Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it’s still unclear how many Americans were impacted by the cyberattack. Last month, Andrew Witty,…

UnitedHealthcare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of US citizens were affected by recent hack

UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response…

UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after hack

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UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

The health tech giant processes 15 billion health transactions a year, and handles health information for about half of all Americans.

3:35 pm PDT • April 22, 2024
UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

A ransomware gang called Daixin has taken credit for the breach, and claimed to steal millions of customer records dating back to 2017.

Omni Hotels says customers’ personal data stolen in ransomware attack

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How Ukraine’s cyber police fights back against Russia’s hackers

On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Since then, life in the country has changed for everyone. For the Ukrainian forces who had to defend their country, for the regular citizens who had to withstand invading forces and constant shelling, and for the Cyberpolice of Ukraine, which had to…

7:52 am PDT • April 12, 2024
How Ukraine’s cyber police fights back against Russia’s hackers

Ransomware gangs are increasingly calling up victim organizations to extort and intimidate rank-and-file employees.

Ransomware gang’s new extortion trick? Calling the front desk

The government’s reward for information now extends to ALPHV’s affiliates, which claimed responsibility for a massive weekslong healthcare cyberattack.

US offers $10M to help catch Change Healthcare hackers

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Should we ban ransom payments?

As cybercriminals continue to reap the financial rewards of their attacks, talk of a federal ban on ransom payments is getting louder. U.S. officials have long urged against paying ransom demands. But while several U.S. states — including North Carolina and Florida — have made it illegal for local government…

8:00 am PST • March 4, 2024
Should we ban ransom payments?

An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware,…

Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions

Security researchers say a pair of easy-to-exploit flaws in a popular remote-access tool used by more than a million companies around the world are now being mass exploited, with hackers…

Researchers say easy-to-exploit security bugs in ConnectWise remote-access software now under mass attack

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Security experts are warning that a pair of high-risk flaws in a popular remote access tool are being exploited by hackers to deploy LockBit ransomware — days after authorities announced…

Hackers are exploiting ConnectWise flaws to deploy LockBit ransomware, security experts warn

A sweeping law enforcement operation led by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) this week took down LockBit, the notorious Russia-linked ransomware gang that for years has wreaked havoc on…

Six things we learned from the LockBit takedown

The U.S. government has sanctioned two key members of LockBit, the Russian-speaking hacking and extortion gang accused of launching ransomware attacks against victims across the U.S. and internationally. In a…

US sanctions LockBit members after ransomware takedown

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Authorities disrupt operations of notorious LockBit ransomware gang

A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, have disrupted the operations of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang. LockBit’s dark web leak site — where the group publicly lists its victims and threatens to leak their stolen data…

12:49 am PST • February 20, 2024
Authorities disrupt operations of notorious LockBit ransomware gang

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Why are ransomware gangs making so much money?

For many organizations and startups, 2023 was a rough year financially, with companies struggling to raise money and others making cuts to survive. Ransomware and extortion gangs, on the other hand, had a record-breaking year in earnings, if recent reports are anything to go by. It’s hardly surprising when you…

5:00 am PST • February 17, 2024
Why are ransomware gangs making so much money?

The prolific ransomware gang LockBit has claimed responsibility for hacking one of India’s top brokerage firms, Motilal Oswal. Indian authorities say they are aware and investigating the incident. On Tuesday,…

LockBit claims cyberattack on Indian broker Motilal Oswal

U.K.-based water utility Southern Water has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of as many as 470,000 customers in a recent data breach. Southern Water, which provides water and…

UK utility giant Southern Water says hackers stole personal data of hundreds of thousands of customers

The U.S. government sanctioned a Russian national for allegedly playing a “pivotal role” in the ransomware attack against Australian health insurance giant Medibank that exposed the sensitive information of almost…

US sanctions Russian citizen accused of playing key role in Medibank ransomware attack

LoanDepot customers say they have been unable to make mortgage payments or access their online accounts following a suspected ransomware attack on the company last week. The mortgage and loan…

LoanDepot outage drags into second week after ransomware attack

Texas-based care provider HMG Healthcare has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of residents and employees, but says it has been unable to determine what types of data were…

Texas-based care provider HMG Healthcare says hackers stole unencrypted patient data

Real estate services giant Fidelity National Financial has confirmed hackers stole data on 1.3 million of its customers during a November cyberattack that knocked the company offline for a week.…

Fidelity National Financial says hackers stole data on 1.3 million customers

Mortgage and loan giant LoanDepot said Monday it is experiencing a cyberattack and that it’s “working diligently to restore normal business operations as quickly as possible.” The Irvine, California-based company…

LoanDepot hit by suspected ransomware attack

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MOVEit, Capita, CitrixBleed and more: The biggest data breaches of 2023

This year, 2023, was a hell of a year for data breaches, much like the year before it (and the year before that, etc.). Over the past 12 months, we’ve seen hackers ramp up their exploitation of bugs in popular file-transfer tools to compromise thousands of organizations, ransomware gangs adopt…

4:05 am PST • December 27, 2023
MOVEit, Capita, CitrixBleed and more: The biggest data breaches of 2023

2023 proved to be a challenging year on the ransomware front after a brief lull in 2022. According to data from cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis, victims had paid ransomware groups…

Anti-ransomware startup Halcyon lands fresh $40M tranche

An international group of law enforcement agencies has seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized…

Authorities claim seizure of notorious ALPHV ransomware gang’s dark web leak site