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LSU Health adds UMC New Orleans to list of places affected by cyber intrusion that exposed patient info to hackers Share Updated: 12:52 PM CST Jan 8, 2021 WDSU Digital Team
LSU Health adds UMC New Orleans to list of places affected by cyber intrusion that exposed patient info to hackers Share Updated: 12:52 PM CST Jan 8, 2021
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Show Transcript THAT’S THE WORST LOSS ON RECORD NEW AT NOON, LSU HEALTH SAYS A CYBER INTRUSION THAT IMPACTED THEM, ALSO AFFECTS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER OF NEW ORLEANS. THE BREACH WAS FIRST REPORTED BACK IN NOVEMBER. BUT LSU HEALTH HAS SINCE LEARNED THAT THE EMPLOYEE’S ELECTRONIC MAILBOX ALSO INCLUDED INFORMATION ABOUT UMC. THE HOSPITAL IS NOW IN THE PR
[author: Jane Anderson]
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Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks as the company races to deploy its COVID-19 vaccine,
Reuters reported.
[1] The hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers,
Reuters’ sources said. They then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code. The hacking attempts targeted “a broad set of people,” including staff working on COVID-19 research, according to one of
Reuters’ sources, but are not thought to have been successful. The tools and techniques used in the attacks indicated that they were part of an ongoing hacking campaign that U.S. officials and cybersecurity researchers have attributed to North Korea, according to the article. Cyberattacks against health entities, vaccine scientists and drugmakers have soared during the COVID-19 pandemic. Micr