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Australian health insurance provider Medibank Private Ltd. refused to pay ransom. Now hackers are releasing records from some of the app. 10 million customers whose data was compromised. “Following through on a threat, the hackers began publishing the most private medical details of some of Medibank’s customers, including terminated pregnancies, treatment for drug and alcohol … Read more
“Additional federal coordination is needed to enhance K-12 cybersecurity,” says the report from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). But it looks as if many school districts are failing to do their part, from failing to report all cyber attacks to not instituting MFA and training. Note the reference to one school district being … Read more
“The group threatened to release the data of Medibank’s ‘1k most [prominent] media persons’ which includes ‘[those with the] most [social media] followers, politicians, actors, bloggers, LGBT activists [and] drug addicted people’ as well as people with ‘very interesting diagnoses.’” Source: Medibank is latest Australian company to suffer cyber security incident | Cyber Security Hub
Resilience CEO Mario Vitale recounts how his company found a vulnerability in the system of a client…and the client was still procrastinating about fixing the problem when the policy’s renewal date arrived. Techmonitor reports what happened next: “At first, Resilience refused to offer the company coverage – until their broker suggested a compromise. If you … Read more
The statistics on how many CISOs have been hit by two to five ransomware attacks are sobering. “More organizations ‘have implemented ‘Plan B’ measures this year, from opening cryptocurrency accounts to purchasing ransomware insurance riders,’ which the report said, ‘suggest that organizations realize threats are slipping through their defenses and a ransomware attack is inevitable.’” … Read more