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Cyberattack Reveals Rockville General Patients Personal Data, Officials Say Cyberattack Reveals Rockville General Patients Personal Data, Officials Say
Cyberattack Reveals Rockville General Patients Personal Data, Officials Say Officials with a hospital conglomerate that was the victim of a weeks-long cyberattack, have informed the state's attorney general's office that 110,000 Connecticut residents had their personal data compromised during the episode. Three hospitals were victims of the August attack including Waterbury Hospital in New Haven County; Manchester Hospital in Hartford County, and Rockville General in Tolland County. All three are part of Prospect Medical Holdings, based in Connecticut. Earlier report: Weeks-Long Cyberattack Brings 3 CT Hospitals To Their Knees On Monday, Nov. 13, Prosp…

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3-Week-Long Cyberattack Brings Rokville General Hospitals To Its Knees 3-Week-Long Cyberattack Brings Rokville General Hospitals To Its Knees
3-Week-Long Cyberattack Brings Rokville General Hospitals To Its Knees A cyberattack on three Connecticut hospitals affected patient care so severely that many were sitting on the floors of emergency rooms bringing the operation of the group to its knees financially. The attack took place in August and affected Waterbury Hospital in New Haven County; Manchester Hospital in Hartford County, and Rockville General in Tolland County. All three are part of Prospect Medical Holdings, based in Connecticut, according to reporting from the CT Mirror. The cyberattack also affected medical offices affiliated with the hospitals. Thinking the attack would last for a …

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Cyberattack Targets Bradley Airport's Website Cyberattack Targets Bradley Airport's Website
Cyberattack Targets Bradley Airport's Website The Bradley International Airport in Connecticut was targeted by a cyberattacker, according to the state’s Airport Authority. Officials announced that there was an external attempt to crash the Windsor Locks airport’s website on Tuesday, March 29, though there was no confirmed data breach. The distributed denial-of-service attack is currently being monitored, but the website remains live, they said. According to Cloudfare, a distributed denial-of-service attack involves hackers looking to disrupt a website by flooding it with superfluous Internet traffic. According to the Connecticut Airp…

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by Zak Failla