As if battling cancer isn’t hard enough, now patients at UW’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center are being extorted. Last month, the Cancer Center experienced a data breach, exposing data for an unknown number of patients. Some of those patients are getting emails threatening to leak their personal information if they don’t pay up.
The APLHV/BlackCat ransom gang says it will encrypt Henry Schein’s network systems for the third time – the latest payback move for stalling negotiations from a crushing October ransomware attack.