Healthcare giant Abbott probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims

Abbott Laboratories is investigating unauthorized access to its Cancer Diagnostics systems and a separate incident involving the externally hosted LabCentral portal; criminal groups ShinyHunters and ShadowByt3$ claim they exfiltrated large volumes of patient records, medical orders, and PII and are attempting extortion, though Abbott reports no evidence of sensitive customer or patient data exposure and the groups have not publicly released proof.