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

The hackers who carried out the cyberattack on drug distributor Cencora received a $75 million ransom payment in three installments in Bitcoin in March, the largest known cyber ransom payment to date, according to people familiar with the matter. The company showed the costs of the cybersecurity incident in its July quarterly report, saying that most of the $31.4 million in "other" expenses were due to the cybersecurity incident involving data breaches. Two months after the incident was disclosed, Cencora began notifying individuals and national authorities that personal data including names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnoses, prescriptions and medications had been stolen. (Bloomberg)