Collaborate Disseminate
The Warwick Valley Dispatch has a brief notice on their web site: On October 17, 2021; Warwick Valley Dispatch became aware of suspicious and unauthorized activity and discovered a breach in our social media platforms. The breach did not expose any sen… Continue reading Warwick Valley Dispatch social media platform breached
BBC reports: An “unprecedented” and co-ordinated cyber-attack has struck multiple UK-based providers of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services, according to an industry body. Industry body Comms Council UK said several of its members … Continue reading Cyber-attack hits UK internet phone providers
Jenni Smith reports: The court determined the breach of confidentiality of patient records of the health operator Prevent Senior who died of covid-19. The operator is suspected of forging death certificates and omitting covid-19 as the cause of death i… Continue reading Justice determines breach of confidentiality of medical records
Groove, who is making a point of telling anyone who will read their site that Groove is not a gang but just a single person out to prove how easy it is to manipulate media, joined the ranks of those who attack medical entities without regard for the ha… Continue reading Under attack by “Groove,” TriValley Primary Care posts notice on web site and continues caring for patients
MCALLEN, Texas, Oct. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — McAllen Surgical Specialty Center, Ltd. (“McAllen Surgical”) is providing notice of an incident that could affect the privacy of information of certain employees and patients for whom it pr… Continue reading TX: Unable to determine what was accessed in cyberattack, McAllen Surgical Specialty Center, Ltd. is notifying patients as well as employees
Joseph Menn and Christopher Bing broke the news yesterday: The ransomware group REvil was itself hacked and forced offline this week by a multi-country operation, according to three private sector cyber experts working with the United States and one fo… Continue reading Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline
SecureLink, a leader in critical access management, has released a new report titled “A Matter of Life And Death: The State of Critical Access Management in Healthcare,” revealing that third-party attacks in healthcare are on the rise and fundamentall… Continue reading 44% of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Organizations Have Experienced a Data Breach Caused By a Third Party in the Last 12 Months
On June 30, PracticeMax notified HHS of a breach involving 500 patients that they coded as a hacking/IT incident with data on the network server. DataBreaches.net generally suspects that reports of “500” impacted or “501” are re… Continue reading Members of at least two health insurance plans notified of ransomware attack on PracticeMax
Zack Whittaker reports: The private phone data of hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. Call records, text messages, photos, browsing history, precise geolocations and call recordings can all be pulled from a person’s phone because of a security… Continue reading A massive ‘stalkerware’ leak puts the phone data of thousands at risk
On October 7, the Manhasset Union Free School District revealed that it may have been the victim of a ransomware attack. There can no longer be any doubt that they were attacked. Over the weekend, Vice Society threat actors dumped the district’s … Continue reading Update: Student and personnel files from Manhasset Union Free School District appear on the dark web