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In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack disrupted pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance claims across the entire country for weeks. UnitedHealth Group, the parent company, eventually disclosed that the breach affected roughly
Ransomware Isn't Slowing Down — It's Shapeshifting In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered what became one of the most devastating ransomware attacks in U.S. history. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group crippled the nation's largest health care payment processor, disrupting pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance claims
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — the payment processor handling roughly one-third of all U.S. medical claims — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The result: $872 million in direct costs reported by UnitedHealth Group, months of disrupted pharmacy operations, and the personal health data of over 100 million
The Breach That Changed a Hospital System Overnight In February 2024, Change Healthcare — a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group — was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted prescription processing and claims payments for weeks across the U.S. healthcare system. UnitedHealth's CEO later confirmed the company paid a $22
In 2023, a single remote employee at MGM Resorts answered a vishing call — a voice phishing attack impersonating an IT help desk worker. That one conversation led to a social engineering breach that cost MGM an estimated $100 million in losses. The attacker didn't exploit some exotic zero-day.
In March 2024, a single remote employee at a midsize financial firm clicked a link in what looked like a Microsoft Teams notification. Within 72 hours, a threat actor had moved laterally across the company's network, exfiltrated 1.2 million customer records, and deployed ransomware that locked every
Port 3389: The Door You Left Wide Open In January 2024, the FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning that the Phobos ransomware group had been exploiting exposed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services to breach organizations across government, healthcare, education, and critical infrastructure. The attackers didn't use
In February 2024, a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — disrupted claims processing for hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics across the country for weeks. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, later confirmed that the personal health information of roughly 100 million individuals
The Breach That Cost a Charity Its Reputation — and Its Donors In 2023, the nonprofit organization Save the Children Federation confirmed it was hit by the BianLian ransomware group, which claimed to have stolen nearly 7 GB of data including financial records, personal information, and medical data. A global charity
A Single Misconfigured S3 Bucket Exposed 3 Billion Records In 2021, a researcher discovered that a misconfigured cloud storage bucket belonging to data analytics firm Cognyte had exposed more than five billion records. Capital One's infamous 2019 breach — a misconfigured web application firewall in AWS — cost them over
