Collaborate Disseminate
On October 17, the FBI issued a Public Service Announcement, Cybercriminals are Targeting Plastic Surgery Offices and Patients. Five days later, DataBreaches learned that there had been another attack on a plastic surgery practice where patient data ha… Continue reading Another plastic surgery practice appears to have been hit — this time by Hunters International
The following is from a machine translation of an article by Luis F. Duran that appeared at El Mundo on October 18: Last Thursday, French Justice released two Spanish hackers, aged 26 and 28, arrested last summer on charges of attacking 26 French compa… Continue reading France frees the two biggest Spanish hackers
Kara Fohner reports: Two more lawsuits filed against Gaston College allege that a data breach earlier this year exposed the personal information of more than 100,000 people. The lawsuits, filed by Ludenia Archie and Shaquasia Eppes, both former student… Continue reading More lawsuits filed against Gaston College over data breach
There are some data leaks that make you shake your head and wonder about how a firm responded to a ransomware attack. This is one of them. Cadre Services (previously known as Premier Staffing) is a Wisconsin-based company providing employment and staf… Continue reading Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV
On October 13, AlphV threat actors added Morrison Community Hospital to their dark web leak site. Within hours, it appeared to have been removed. Today, it was re-listed with this commentary by AlphV: HUGE LEAK COMING! SQL + DATA = 5TB Given that we ha… Continue reading BlackCat threatens to leak data from Morrison Community Hospital
Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has leaked an additional 4.1 million stolen 23andMe genetic data profiles for people in Great Britain and Germany on a hacking forum. Earlier this month, a threat actor leaked the stolen data of 1 million Ashkenazi Jew… Continue reading Hacker leaks millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles
On October 6, DataBreaches reported a breach allegedly containing more than 600,000 lines of data on registered voters in D.C., where, according to the threat actors who listed it, each line represented one voter’s records. Although there may hav… Continue reading UPDATE: D.C. Board of Elections data breach contained fewer than 4,000 D.C. voters’ data
Indiana Attorney General Rokita led a coalition of 33 attorneys general in a multi-state investigation and litigation against health care clearinghouse Imnediata stemming from a breach disclosed in 2019. Background In January 2019, HHS OCR alerted Inme… Continue reading Inmediata settles multi-state litigation for $1.14 million; will improve data security and breach notification practices
Cameron Burnett reports: Court systems throughout Kansas, including Sedgwick County, will likely be operating on paper for the next two weeks, at the minimum. Kansas Judge Phil Journey says it looks like there has been an “unauthorized incursion&… Continue reading Kansas courts to operate on paper for at least 2 weeks due to “unauthorized incursion” into system
Myles Illidge reports: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) is taking the Information Regulator to court to appeal the R5 million fine the agency slapped it with after falling prey to a ransomware attack in 2021, TechCe… Continue reading Justice department wants to fight R5 million fine over ransomware attack in court