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LabCorp, the US' biggest blood testing laboratories network, announced on Monday that hackers breached its IT network over the weekend.
"At this time, there is no evidence of unauthorized transfer or misuse of data," the company said. "LabCorp has notified the relevant authorities of the suspicious activity and will cooperate in any investigation."
[...] "LabCorp made the wise decision to shut down their entire network while determining the extent of the breach," Kothari added, suggesting that the hacker(s) could have very easily propagated through this interconnected network to reach other organizations.
Healthcare organizations are often the targets of hackers mainly due to the highly sensitive data they work with, which is worth more when crooks sell it online, rather than classic username-email-password combos.
Source: Hackers Breach Network of LabCorp, US' Biggest Blood Testing Laboratories
(Score: 2) by drussell on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:26AM (2 children)
Why would they hack into this database if there were not something significantly interesting to glean from it.... ?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:06PM
They may be able to learn which people have the most marketable vital organs and where they live.
It's just a business model. Nothing personal.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:25PM
To mine bitcoins. To encrypt the data, and offer to sell decryption of it. Lots of possible reasons.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.