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These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024
Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024.
Lawyers representing the group of hundreds of 23andMe users who sued the company following the hack said the finger-pointing was “nonsensical.” U.K. and Canadian authorities soon after announced a joint investigation into 23andMe’s data breach last year. The attack, claimed by the Qilin ransomware group, left patients in south-east London unable to get blood tests from their doctors for more than three months, and led to the cancellation of thousands of outpatient appointments and more than 1,700 surgical procedures. The Qilin ransomware group claims to have leaked 400 gigabytes of sensitive data allegedly stolen from Synnovis, including patient names, health system registration numbers, and descriptions of blood tests.
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