Wash. Hospital Hit By $1.03 Million Cyberheist
Summary: Organized hackers in Ukraine and Russia stole an estimated $1.03 million from Chelan County Public Hospital No. 1 in Washington state on Apr. 19, moving the funds from its payroll account into 96 different bank accounts. The heist relied on nearly 100 U.S. accomplices recruited through work-at-home job scams run by a gang that has operated for at least five years, with roughly $133,000 recovered so far.
Bottom line: The gang runs its own money-mule recruitment division rather than paying third parties 40-60 percent of the haul, and the compromised county accounts also administer 54 other junior taxing districts - so the loss was capped by the supply of mules, not by the attackers' ambition.
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