Collaborate Disseminate
On January 24, DataBreaches was contacted by a spokesperson for AlphV (“BlackCat”) to see if this site would be interested in reporting on a breach involving BrightStar Care (“BrightStar”). BrightStar had been added to their dar… Continue reading Was BrightStar Care attacked by two different groups — or was there only one breach?
Connor Jones reports: Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children’s hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not targeting nonprofits. Stooping to new lows, the criminals are reporte… Continue reading LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children’s hospital
Romania Insider reports: Hackers breached the database of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Parliament, after a recent cyber attack. They reportedly managed to obtain confidential information, such as the prime minister’s identit… Continue reading Hackers obtain confidential information on Romanian officials after cyber attack at Parliament
Bloomberg reports: Russia is facing a widespread internet outage that’s affected users across the country, with access to websites on the local .ru domain down. The issue was linked to a technical problem with the .ru domain’s global Domain Name System… Continue reading Russia Hit With Widespread Internet Outage Across Country
Salvador Rizzo reports: A former IRS contractor who leaked a slew of confidential tax records filed by the wealthiest Americans, including those of President Donald Trump, was sentenced Monday to the maximum of five years in prison. Charles Littlejohn … Continue reading Ex-IRS contractor who leaked Trump’s tax returns sentenced to 5 years
KPQ reports: The Washington Appeals Court will hear a case from two people suing Chelan Douglas Health District over a security breach. The Health District reported a breach in July of 2021 but did not inform possible victims or the public until March … Continue reading Washington State Appeals Court to hear data breach lawsuit against Chelan Douglas Health District
The UT investigated the decision-making process of victims who had to pay ransoms during ransomware attacks. UT researcher Tom Meurs and his colleagues analyzed 481 ransomware attacks, data from the Dutch police and a Dutch incident response party. Org… Continue reading University of Twente Maps Decision-Making Process for Ransomware Victims
In the process of researching breach reports submitted to HHS, DataBreaches came across a public notice for an incident affecting Primary Health & Wellness Center, LLC in Maryland. The covered entity is to be commended for the details and transpare… Continue reading Primary Health & Wellness Center, LLC’s public notice of ransomware incident
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Today, CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against three recently patched Citrix NetScaler and Google Chrome zero-days actively exploited in attacks, pushing for a Citrix RCE bug to be patched within a week… Continue reading CISA pushes federal agencies to patch Citrix RCE within a week
Emily Cervantes reports: Hawaii Medical Service Administration employee information may be compromised after their vendor partner fell victim to a cyber attack. In early Sept. 2023, HMSA’s health management service vendor, Navvis, announced they experi… Continue reading HMSA member data possibly compromised after data breach