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The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is alerting more than four million individuals of a data breach that impacted their personal and health information. The data breach was possible after Clop ransomware exploited the MOVEit Transfer zero-day in a hacking campaign that impacted hundreds of organizations worldwide.
Data going back as far as nearly 20 years may have been stolen from the Colorado Department of Higher Education after ransomware extortionists breached the government body's IT systems. CISA sends schools back to the classroom on security UK telco watchdog Ofcom, Minnesota Dept of Ed named as latest MOVEit victims US school year opens with reading, writing, and ransomware Cybercriminals made $7bn in pure profit in 2021, says FBI. The education sector has become a notable target for cybercriminals, especially since schools were forced to adopt wider use of remote access technology during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Colorado Department of Higher Education discloses a massive data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after suffering a ransomware attack in June. "On June 19, 2023, CDHE became aware it was the victim of a cybersecurity ransomware incident that impacted its network systems," explains the data breach notification.
Colorado State University has confirmed that the Clop ransomware operation stole sensitive personal information of current and former students and employees during the recent MOVEit Transfer data-theft attacks. Colorado State University is a public research university with nearly 28,000 students and 6,000 academic and administrative staff members, operating on an endowment of $558,000,000.
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Grades and social security numbers for students at the University of Colorado and University of Miami patient data have been posted online by the Clop ransomware group. The ransomware gang then contacted the organizations and demanded $10 million in bitcoin or they would publish the stolen data.
Lafayette, Colorado, officials announced Tuesday the city's computer systems were hacked and they were forced to pay a ransom to regain access. Lafayette officials said hackers disabled the city's network services and blocked its access until the city paid a $45,000 fee, the Daily Camera reported.
In addition to the attack on the hospital in the Czech Republic, she cited a number of healthcare cyber incidents in France, Spain and Thailand, adding that there needs to be more collaboration worldwide on protecting critical health infrastructure in times of crisis. Ransomware attacks on healthcare providers rose 350% in the fourth quarter of 2019, and Emsisoft research shows that more than 759 healthcare providers were hit with ransomware last year.
No one knows who they belong to. (Well, of course someone knows. And my guess is that it's likely that we will know soon.)...
A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack this week that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices,...