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Cyber Daily: Highmark Health Finds Cybersecurity Staff in a Tight Labor Market
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Hello. Before the pandemic, Highmark Health CISO Omar Khawaja had cybersecurity staff in just two states. Now a “work-from-anywhere” policy means his people are spread among 21 states.
Being flexible about where someone works helps Mr. Khawaja recruit good people, WSJ Pro's Catherine Stupp reports. So does being open-minded about a candidate's experience, or lack thereof.
Read our Q&A here.
Today: On Election Day in the U.S., federal officials are working to debunk online misinformation and talk of security breaches on voting machines and at voting locations at CISA's "Rumor Control" site.
Other news:
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Maple Leaf Foods tries to head off meat and poultry disruption after cyberattack
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Medibank won't pay ransom
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Experian, T-Mobile settle breach cases
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Crypto firms lobby hard ahead of 2022 elections
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Ireland's healthcare system monitors dark web
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PHOTO: ARMEND NIMANI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
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Justice Department Announces Seizure of Bitcoin Once Valued at $3.36 Billion
The cryptocurrency seizure, now worth about $1 billion, took place in November 2021 and hadn’t been publicly announced. James Zhong of Georgia pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of wire fraud for stealing more than 50,000 bitcoin in 2012 from Silk Road, a now-defunct online dark web marketplace.
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Mr. Zhong, 32 years old, is set to be sentenced in February. Attorney Michael Bachner said his client was remorseful for conduct that occurred when he was just 22 years old. Read the full WSJ story.
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Experian, T-Mobile settle data-breach cases with states. Credit rater Experian PLC and telecom carrier T-Mobile US Inc. agreed to pay $16 million in three multi-state settlements regarding their separate data breaches in 2012 and 2015, Iowa's attorney general's office said. The deals aren't related to the massive breach at T-Mobile in 2021.
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Japan plans to officially join NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, which holds cyber training exercises and conducts research. (InfoSecurity Magazine)
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$73 Million
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Amount crypto firms and their employees poured into 2022 elections, up from $13 million in the 2020 cycle, according to research group OpenSecrets, which tracks political donations, WSJ reports.
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Ireland's national healthcare system monitors dark web. Eighteen months after a May 2021 ransomware attack led to widespread computer outages at hospitals across Ireland, the Health Service Executive said it has found no signs compromised data has been leaked or is being used in scams.
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Join us for The WSJ Risk & Compliance Forum on Nov. 16
The event includes a discussion on cybersecurity regulation with Tom Kellermann of Contrast Security and Kristina Littman of Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, plus a breakout on the use of customer data with Stephanie Liu of Forrester Research.
Register here.
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PHOTO: BRENDON THORNE/BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Medibank says 'no ransom payment will be made.' Australian insurer Medibank Private Ltd., in consultation with cybercrime experts, has decided not to pay a ransom demanded by hackers who stole policyholder data last month. "Today, we’ve announced that no ransom payment will be made to the criminal responsible for this data theft," the company said Monday.
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Medibank also disclosed specifics about the stolen data:
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Personal data about 9.7 million current and former customers
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Health claims data for about 480,000 customers
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Personal data for about 2,900 customers' next of kin
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Details about an unspecified number of healthcare providers
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PHOTO: DELLA ROLLINS
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Meat producer Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is working to restore operations after a cyberattack on Sunday. Maple Leaf, based in Ontario, Canada, said it is collaborating with customers to minimize disruptions to meat and poultry supplies.
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New York's Albany City School District disconnected from the internet after a weekend cyberattack. The district said it wasn't ransomware and no data was stolen, adding it expects staff and student systems to be offline through Wednesday. (Times Union)
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11 Trillion
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Number of years it would take to crack an 18-character password that combines numbers and upper- and lower-case letters by brute force computing, according to cybersecurity company Hive Systems LLC.
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