Company
Massachusetts-based medical device maker producing cardiovascular, surgical and other devices, with about 59,000 employees and $20B+ revenue.
NCC Group counted 1,073 ransomware attacks in August, a second straight 2026 high and 12% above July. Industrial companies took 31% of them, up from 28% in July, so the hardest-hit sector drew a larger slice of a larger total.
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A network outage has blocked order processing and shipping since August 25, with no restoration date. The exposure lands in operating rooms as much as in the vendor's incident response room.
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Veradigm told the SEC that an attacker took credentials from a vendor's environment and used them against a Veradigm API to download patient data including Social Security numbers, while The Gentlemen gang claims 3.5 million records.
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Five lawmakers announced two bills putting biotech and genomic data under CISA's infrastructure planning, with no new sector. If enacted, DHS would contact key biotech firms and fold their input into the National Infrastructure Protection Plan this year.
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The device maker told regulators that an August 25 intrusion halted order processing and manufacturing, and the next company figure on the year comes with third-quarter results on October 28, 64 days after the incident was identified.
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Vidar, LummaC2, RedLine and Atomic Stealer are pulling session material that authenticates without a login prompt, so the usual reset-and-enroll response can leave the intruder inside and spending the victim's paid usage.
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The Aug. 30 update confines unauthorized activity to certain on-premises systems and reports cloud applications clean, yet the company still has no date for restoring the systems that fulfill and ship orders.
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