Collaborate Disseminate
Abigail Ham reports: The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs says some veterans getting services through the White River Junction, Vt. healthcare system may have had their personal information exposed in an unintentional data breach. Earlier thi… Continue reading VT: Local VA warns of possible data breach
DPA reports: The Berlin state government has declined to comment on the demands made by hackers who targeted the city’s administrative data network two weeks ago, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. The government is also withholding information abou… Continue reading De: Hackers demand 30 bitcoin from Berlin as sensitive data breach widens
AJ Vicens and Raphael Satter report: U.S. officials are backpedaling on claims that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese spies, now saying that the organizations were among the hackers’ targets. In a freshly edited statement, the J… Continue reading US officials backpedal on claims that government agencies were hacked by Chinese
SuspectFile reports: A cyberattack against a Texas healthcare organization allegedly resulted in the exfiltration of approximately 1.4 TB of data, according to claims made by the ransomware group PEAR. The alleged victim is South Plains Rural Health Se… Continue reading PEAR leaks data allegedly exfiltrated from South Plains Rural Health Services while SPRHS remains silent
On August 27, DataBreaches woke up to a message request on Signal that read, “Click2mail.com checkout with a debit card, website is actively hijacked. Card gets sold to fraudsters. It’s happened twice.” DataBreaches accepted the request, an… Continue reading SCOOP: Some Click2Mail customers will soon be receiving notification of a data security incident
In April, Interim HealthCare of West Texas LLC (Lubbock, Amarillo, and Pampa) and Interim HealthCare of Amarillo notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of a breach. West Texas notified HHS that 2,071 patients were affected, while the… Continue reading Two different groups have recently attacked Interim HealthCare entities. Should other franchises be concerned?
Nitin Naresh revisits the significant Star Health breach of 2024. Previous coverage of the hack-and-leak incident can be found linked in the Related section below this post, which includes coverage of threats made to the insurance firm’s executiv… Continue reading Star Health’s public record: A data breach, a ₹3.39-crore fine, 13,000 ombudsman complaints — and still no accounting for the policyholder
Lawrence Abrams reports: Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and data theft, with the ShinyHunters extortion group claiming it stole … Continue reading McKesson is investigating a cybersecurity incident after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft
WXOW in Minnesota reports: Winona County paid more than $128,000 following a January ransomware attack, according to a county news release. The county said it negotiated and paid $128,539.57 with assistance from its insurance carrier after ransomware w… Continue reading Winona County paid more than $128K following January ransomware attack
Matt Trewern reports on another charity hit by the Beacon CRM data breach that affected more than 1,000 charities and non-profits: People using an HIV charity have been told their “sensitive and personal” health information may have been st… Continue reading UK: HIV charity has ‘sensitive’ health data stolen