When cybercriminals began the onslaught of ransomware attacks on the healthcare industry in early 2016, very few were prepared with how best to respond. Further, most of these attacks went unreported.

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Around four months is the average time it takes for a company to report a data breach but certain industries take even longer, an analysis of ransomware attacks since 2018 finds. Companies often take ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. In August 2021, hackers offered for sale on the Dark Web data of what they said was ...

Doordash, the food delivery app, suffered a major data breach in October but took 19 days before it notified millions of its customers by email that personal information of theirs had been compromised ...