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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 HiThere on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:24PM
You don't know what it was penetrated by. It could have been one of those "encrypt all the data and offer to decrypt it" jobs. It may not have been a targeted attack, just a "vicious in some way" attack that wanted to spread. Another question is "How did they notice that they were infected?" Some attacks are multi-stage, during the first phase it tries to be unobtrusive and contagious, then in a later stage it does the damage.
And, of course, the spokesman might not have full knowledge of what the investigators had found. So it may well be a reasonable statement.
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