American Dental Association, ADA (American Dental Association)

American Dental Association, ADA is an American professional dental association founded in 1859. ADA is engaged in research in the field of oral hygiene, the development of practical recommendations, as well as tracking current trends in the industry.

2022: Cyber attack on ADA by Black Basta

On April 27, 2022, it became known that The American the association (stomatologists American Dental Association, ADA) was subjected to cyber attack to use. As extortionate ON a result of the incident, she had to disconnect part of her IT network, which disrupted the work of online services, phones, e-mail and chat.

When the portal BleepingComputer turned to ADA for comment on what had happened, the organization replied that it had encountered technical problems and was investigating their reasons. However, in emails sent to members of the association (regional associations of dentists, doctors and medical institutions), it is reported that on April 22, 2022, the ADA "fell victim to a security incident that caused a malfunction in some systems." After discovering what happened, the association immediately turned off the affected systems and began to find out the causes and extent of the failure.

ADA notified law enforcement agencies about the incident and sought help in conducting an investigation with third-party IB specialists.

The cyber attack affected not only the ADA website, but also regional dental associations in New York, Virginia and Florida, which use its online services to register accounts and pay contributions.

attack cyberextortionate Black Basta claimed responsibility for. On her website leaks , she published 2.8 GB, information allegedly stolen from ADA as a result of a cyber attack. According to him, this is hackers only 30% of all abductees from the association. This files includes data records of salaries paid and withheld from employees, taxes non-disclosure agreements, accounting tables and ADA members.

Data breaches dental organizations are very dangerous, since small dentists usually do not have full-time system administrators and experts on. cyber security^[1]

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