Puppies, kittens, data at risk after 'cyber incident' at veterinary giant First, they came for hospitals, then it was charities and cancer centers. Now, cyber scumbags are coming for the puppies and kittens. CVS Group, the company behind one of the UK's largest chains of vet practices, announced a "cyber incident" on Monday, hinting at the possibility of data theft and clinical care at some of its …
The incident has forced CVS to engage its incident response plan, which involved pulling systems offline to isolate the incident. The consequences of the temporary IT shutdown "caused considerable operational disruption over the past week," the company stated, and disruption is expected to continue for further weeks still.It also engaged outside security experts to help investigate the extent of the damage and support CVS's response. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) – the UK's data protection regulator – was also notified "due to the risk of malicious access to personal information."
Obviously we can't see all the details, but this seems like a lot better response than the "Lessons will be learnt" PR bollocks and "Have some credit rating tracking" responses that we usually see.
A pint for the CVS techies who probably really need one -->
"UK operations have been disrupted, CVS said without offering much in the way of details,"
Our local practice's IT has been down since before the weekend. They're back "just" as of lunch time today but "running very slowly".
They're totally unable to dispense meds or check prescriptions, still, which is annoying as our dog started some last week and there is a query with the dosage.
Oddly, nothing listed on https://www.cvsukltd.co.uk/news/ and no link in ElReg article to an announcement ?
UPDATE: Found it buried here : https://www.cvsukltd.co.uk/investor-centre/regulatory-news/
The hackers modded the pricing data so that costs went from absolutely extortionate to affordable.
Vets all seem to act as a subtle cartel as over the years they have all ramped up prices, and certainly in area I live when we tried getting quotes on a variety of pet related things* for "shopping around" in case we could find a better deal vets, there were negligible differences.
No independent vets left near us**, all owned by big groups.
*Ranging for cost of various prescription meds, consultation cost, costs of various "standard" treatments / blood tests
** Cats hate travel, they get really stressed by it, so cannot look too far afield for a vets (whereas dogs are fine in a car) - the one drawback of a cat as a pet.
《Cats hate travel, they get really stressed by it, so cannot look too far afield for a vets (whereas dogs are fine in a car) - the one drawback of a cat as a pet.》
I recall a chap, many decades ago, with a siamese travelling from Canberra to Brisbane which was making such racket that he ended up strapping cat's cage (with cat) to the roof rack for most of the journey (well before Tamworth I suspect) - a very placid moggy arrived in Brisbane.
I tried transporting an ordinary cat 160km and had to give up. A vet gave me some ketamine for the cat for second attempt - worked a treat - completely dissociated. Lay on the back seat with paws tucked under totally in La La land. (Its how I imagine Musk when he taking his special K :)
he ended up strapping cat's cage (with cat) to the roof rack for most of the journey (well before Tamworth I suspect) - a very placid moggy arrived in Brisbane
He's lucky he didn't meet me as I would have expressed some fairly strong views on him committing animal cruelty.
I tried transporting an ordinary cat 160km and had to give up
We had a cat that always used to scream and wail and then soil her cage. One time, the car was crowded so her cage had to go on my wifes lap. The cat spent the whole trip watching stuff go by. No wailing, no screaming and a nice clean cage. We reckon that she used to get really car sick on the back seat where she couldn't see out but, being able to see out kept her happy.
Her brother just used to go to sleep as soon as he got put in the cage and then wake up once the cage door was opened at our destination.
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