When hackers obtained nude photos of patients from a Pennsylvania hospital system, hospital officials refused to pay a ransom in excess of $5 million to get them back. Now, however the Lehigh Valley Health Network must pay $65 million in a settlement to patients whose images were published on the dark web, reports the Record. The breach, discovered in early 2023, allowed hackers to obtain images (not all of them nude) and personal data on more than 130,000 patients.
Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week.
In a brief statement filed with government regulators on Thursday, Halliburton said it became aware of unauthorized access to its systems on Wednesday and responded by “proactively taking certain systems offline.” The company said it is “working to identify any effects of the incident.”
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When hackers obtained nude photos of patients from a Pennsylvania hospital system, hospital officials refused to pay a ransom in excess of $5 million to get them back. Now, however the Lehigh Valley Health Network must pay $65 million in a settlement to patients whose images were published on the dark web, reports the Record. The breach, discovered in early 2023, allowed hackers to obtain images (not all of them nude) and personal data on more than 130,000 patients.
Train services in central Germany have been “massively affected” due to a technical fault, the German rail company Deutsche Bahn said.
“The duration of the disruption cannot currently be foreseen,” RMV said at the time.
It remains unclear what caused the technical fault.
Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week.
In a brief statement filed with government regulators on Thursday, Halliburton said it became aware of unauthorized access to its systems on Wednesday and responded by “proactively taking certain systems offline.” The company said it is “working to identify any effects of the incident.”
I almost put this in Clown World.
The firm said preliminary investigations show the outage was caused by a cyber-attack and a failure to properly defend against it.