2 Minute Drill: Delta Sues CrowdStrike and a Floppy Disk Upgrade with Drex DeFord
Episode 7429th October 2024 • This Week Health: Newsroom • This Week Health
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Hey everyone, I'm Drexen. This is the Two Minute Drill, where I do three quick stories twice a week, all part of one great community, the 229 Cyber and Risk Community here at This Week Health. Today's Two Minute Drill is brought to you by ORDR, the asset inventory and intelligence company. Did you know that you can know everything about everything on your network?

Every vulnerability, every risk, every user? Everything in real time. You can find out more at order. net slash healthcare. Thanks for joining me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group are notifying patients that were affected by that hugely disruptive ransomware attack earlier in the year.

During that breach, a lot of data was stolen from Change, and now we know they're on a path to to notify at least a hundred million people that data like name and address and phone number and social security number and medical information like medications and diagnoses were included in that hijacked data.

If you haven't been notified yet, keep your eyes on the mailbox. It apparently takes a while to tell almost a third of the population of the United States that their data has been stolen. It looked for a while like CrowdStrike might avoid any major lawsuits over its July 19th non cyber event that involved a software update.

That update led to a global technology outage that affected many companies, including Delta Airlines. Well, Delta now says they had to cancel 7, 000 flights during that outage, and they're now officially suing CrowdStrike after weeks of legal threats. There's bound to be a lot more to this story. as the lawsuit unfolds, and I'll keep you updated.

And I often talk about tech debt being part of our problem in healthcare. Well, at least we're not these folks. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board has agreed to spend 212 million to move The tech that runs the Muni Metro train control system off of a program that requires 5 14 floppy inch disks to operate.

And I know I'm a little more seasoned than some of the folks in the audience, and some of you will probably now have to do a search on what's a 5 14 floppy inch disk to see what I'm referring to. Sorry about that. That story and actually all these stories and a bunch of other stories that I post every day are at this week.

health.com/news. You can get all the two minute drill episodes at this week, health.com/drill, where you can sign up wherever you get your podcast. Search for this week, health Newsroom, and you'll find UNH hack the podcast and unpack the news and the two minute drill and a bunch of other great shows in there too.

Today's Two Minute Drill was brought to you by ORDR. Do you really know who all your devices are talking to? You can. Bring some ORDR to your enterprise. Find out more at ORDR. net slash healthcare. That's O R D R ORDR. net slash healthcare. That's it for today's Two Minute Drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid.

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