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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.
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. The companies, Avaya, Check Point, Mimecast, and Unisys paid a collective $6.9 million in fines for a range of violations that included “negligently” downplaying and minimizing the damage of their own breaches stemming from the 2019 SolarWinds espionage attack, per the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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