Planned Parenthood of Montana’s chief exec says the org is responding to a cyber-attack on its systems, and has drafted in federal law enforcement and infosec professionals to help investigate and rebuild its IT environment.
This comes as ransomware crew RansomHub boasted it had broken into the nonprofit, and stolen its data, which it is threatening to leak unless payment is made. According to Martha Fuller, CEO and president of the US state’s Planned Parenthood office, a network intrusion – or a “cybersecurity incident” as the org put it – was spotted on August 28.
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Source: The Register
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