2 Minute Drill - Breaches and Big Moves: 23andMe, MasterCard Acquisition, and Voter Misinformation with Drex DeFord
Episode 6318th September 2024 • This Week Health: Newsroom • This Week Health
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  Hey everyone, I'm Drex, and 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 drill is brought to you by Fortified Health Security. No matter where you're at in your cybersecurity journey, Fortified can help you improve your security posture through their 24 7 threat defense services, Fortified Health Security.

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30 million divided by 6. 4 million is 4. 69 per person for those who had their 23andMe health data stolen. That's maybe a cup of coffee at Starbucks. That data is probably worth a lot more on the dark web, but you'll only get 469, maybe less if there's still some legal fees to be paid. MasterCard. Yes, that MasterCard has purchased threat intelligence company, Recorded Future for 2.

6 billion. MasterCard says it's an expansion of its Existing cybersecurity services and that the acquisition would bolster insights and intelligence it uses to secure its financial services ecosystem. Recorded future CEO says that you should think of it as the same company, just a new owner. They'll apparently operate as an independent business unit.

MasterCard has a pattern of cybersecurity acquisitions. Over the past few years, including CipherTrace, Ekata, and third party risk management firm RiskRecon, among others. I know, makes me wonder what their plans are too. And finally The FBI and CISA are alerting the public about false claims that U. S.

voter registration data has been compromised in a cyber attack. Again, that claim is false. According to the agency's, malicious actors are spreading false information to try to undermine confidence in the upcoming election. And as always, all the details on that story and all of our stories are available at ThisWeekHealth.

com slash news. By the way, today is National Voter Registration Day. Consider this your reminder to go register, especially if you're a first time voter and even if you're sure that you're already registered, go double check. Then when the time comes, cast your ballot. You can find out more about all of that at national voter registration day.org.

Thanks again to our 2 Minute Drill sponsor, healthcare's cyber partner, Fortified Health Security. With a 98 percent client retention rate and three consecutive best in class awards, Fortified's exclusive focus on healthcare cybersecurity makes them the go to partner for healthcare organizations wanting to strengthen their cybersecurity posture.

Find out more at fortifiedhealthsecurity. com. That's it for today's 2 Minute Drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid. I'll see you around campus.

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