breaches

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Ardent Health Services, headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., and operating in six different states, fell victim to a ransomware attack in late November that has taken its entire network offline. Some 30 hospitals have been affected by this ransomware attack. While the attack didn’t disrupt patient care in Ardent hospitals, those in need of emergency medical…

News

Issued by: Dark Reading

After announcing that it had experienced a major outage at the beginning of the month, The British Library confirmed on Nov. 14 that the disruption was due to a ransomware attack. And recovery has been slow. Three weeks after the attack, the library’s website is still offline. The IT outage affects the library’s online systems,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Indigo Books, the company behind Chapters stores and the largest bookseller in Canada, let the deadline to pay a ransomware demand expire, risking the release of employee data. A LockBit ransomware affiliate group set a Thursday at 3:39 p.m. EST deadline to pay, but Indigo flatly rejected the notion, explaining the extortion money could “end…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

French police arrested a notorious hacker who’s suspected of forming part of an extortion scheme that targeted a Finnish psychotherapy practice and its patients. Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki, 25, is the focus of a European arrest warrant issued last October in Finland. He’s been charged with participating in the hack of Vastaamo Psychotherapy Center. The now-defunct…

Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Companies that invest in privacy see an average return of 270% on their investments, with seven out of 10 companies seeing significant benefits from their privacy expenditures, according to an annual survey published by Cisco today. In addition, more mature companies — as measured by a five-point accountability score — saw greater returns on their…