Medical testing services provider Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC) is notifying 1.6 million individuals that their personal information was stolen in an October 2024 data breach.
As part of the cyberattack, which was identified on October 27, a threat actor accessed LSC’s network and accessed and exfiltrated certain files containing patient and employee information.
The US Justice Department seized approximately half a million dollars that North Korean government-backed hackers had either extorted from US health care organizations or used to launder ransom payments, deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday as she touted an aggressive US strategy to claw back money for victims of ransomware attacks.