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News Articles: cyberattack

After the Change Healthcare cyberattack wreaked chaos in the health care system, members of the Senate Finance Committee heard testimony from Andrew Witty, chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group, Change Healthcare's parent company.

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  • Health

Cyberattacks plague health care. Critics call the federal response 'inadequate'

The Change Healthcare cyberattack sparked a new strategy from the federal government on preventing destructive ransomware crimes. Critics say it doesn't go far enough.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Darius Tahir
Austin's Ascension Seton Medical Center is among the hospitals affected by a nationwide cybersecurity breach of Ascension technology systems.

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  • Health

How the Ascension cyberattack is disrupting care at hospitals

With IT systems down, staff at Ascension have to use manual processes they left behind some 20 years ago. It's the latest in a string of attacks on health care systems that house private patient data.

May 23, 2024
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By:
  • Olivia Aldridge
LAX officials told NPR that FlyLAX.com was partially disrupted early Monday morning. The service interruption did not compromise internal airport systems and there were no operational disruptions, according to authorities.

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  • National Security

Pro-Russian hackers claim responsibility for knocking U.S. airport websites offline

Killnet urged hackers to take down dozens of airport websites across the country early Monday morning. Within hours several sites were down. But officials say the outages did not interrupt operations.

October 10, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo

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  • Business

Toyota stops production in Japan after a cyberattack hits one of its suppliers

The suspected attack forced Toyota, one of the world's largest auto manufacturers, to suspend operations at 14 of its Japanese plants, affecting the production of about 13,000 vehicles.

February 28, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
The outage hit the website for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, shown here during a ceremony last October.

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  • World

Ukraine says government websites and banks were hit with denial of service attack

The outage impacted the website of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the Armed Services as well as two large Ukrainian banks, Privatbank and Oschadbank.

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
A sign at the Colonial Pipeline Houston Station facility in Pasadena, Texas, warns against trespassing. Colonial was forced to shut down a key pipeline last month after suffering a ransomware attack. Such attacks are becoming more frequent and increasingly, they are targeting key infrastructure like fuel or food supplies.

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  • Business

U.S. Suffers Over 7 Ransomware Attacks An Hour. It's Now A National Security Risk

Cybercriminals are using sophisticated malware to attack companies' IT systems, and they are demanding ransom payments in digital currencies

June 09, 2021
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By:
  • David Gura
The Justice Department has assembled a new task force to confront ransomware after what officials say was the most costly year on record for the crippling cyberattacks. It managed to recover $2.3 million of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline in an attack earlier this year, the department announced Monday.

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  • National

How A New Team Of Feds Hacked The Hackers And Got Colonial Pipeline's Ransom Back

The linchpin to retrieving $2.3 million, half the company's payment, was gaining access to the private key linked to the attacker's Bitcoin account. Here's how authorities may have gotten it.

June 08, 2021
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
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  • Technology

Pipeline Cyberattack Serves As Wake-Up Call To Protect Infrastructure

The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline that shut down access to a pipeline that supplies fuel along the East Coast is sparking new calls to beef up protection of the nation’s energy infrastructure.

May 14, 2021
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about worldwide threats on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

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  • National Security

Intelligence Chiefs Say China, Russia Are Biggest Threats To U.S.

The top U.S. intelligence officials detailed concerns to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, with many questions raised about cyberthreats and espionage targeting U.S. technology.

April 14, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
U.S. federal agencies sent an alert Wednesday night that there is "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat" to hospitals and healthcare providers.

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  • National

U.S. Hospitals Targeted In Rising Wave Of Ransomware Attacks, Federal Agencies Say

An alert warns hospitals and health care providers that there is "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat."

October 29, 2020
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By:
  • Shannon Bond,
  • Vanessa Romo,
  • and 1 more
Atlanta has been under a cyberattack for a week now.

Vulnerabilities Revealed After Atlanta Cyberattack

The City of Atlanta is still dealing with the fallout from a massive cyberattack Thursday . Since a group of hackers locked down the city's computer...

March 28, 2018
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  • Tony Harris ,
  • Fenly Foxen ,
  • and 1 more
The court's website is online, but it's payment portal is out of commission.

Cyberattack Cripples Atlanta City Court

The City of Atlanta’s computer network is still under siege by a ransomware cyberattack that began March 22. The shutdown is backlogging the city’s...

March 26, 2018
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By:
  • Emily Cureton

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