Drug distributor Cencora pays $75 million in Bitcoin ransom to hackers

Odaily Odaily News: According to people familiar with the matter, hackers who launched a cyber attack on pharmaceutical distributor Cencora received a $75 million ransom payment in three installments in the form of Bitcoin in March this year, which is the largest known cyber ransom payment to date. The company showed the costs of cybersecurity incidents in its July quarterly report, saying that most of the $31.4 million in "other" expenses were due to cybersecurity incidents involving data leaks. Two months after the incident was disclosed, Cencora began to notify individuals and national authorities that personal data including names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, prescriptions and medications had been stolen. (Bloomberg)