Collaborate Disseminate
December 27 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $300,000 from The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited their website. An investigation by the Office of the Att… Continue reading Attorney General James Secures $300,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for Failing to Protect Patient Data
Scott Gelman reports: An investigation into how Fairfax County Public Schools accidentally shared other students’ private information with a parent during a fall meeting has concluded, Superintendent Michelle Reid said in a letter to families Thursday…. Continue reading Fairfax Co. concludes investigation into student data breach
Every so often, a natural disaster reminds us of other ways records are lost and why entities should have offsite backups that are regularly updated. Ishvarya Lakshmi reports: Patient records, medical instruments, drugs, syringes, needles and sanitary … Continue reading Patient records lost, equipment damaged at several urban primary health centers by cyclone
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang’s darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems. Meanwhile, BlackCat responded by briefly “unseizing” its darknet site with a message promising 90 percent commissions for affiliates who continue to work with the crime group, and open season on everything from hospitals to nuclear power plants. Continue reading BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption
On October 25, DataBreaches reported that Akumin’s ability to provide diagnostic services at some locations remained disrupted two weeks after they detected suspicious activity on their network. What they subsequently identified as a ransomware a… Continue reading Did Akumin experience two cyber attacks in October and November? It has only acknowledged one.
Brittany Toolis reports: As if battling cancer isn’t hard enough, now patients at UW’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center are being extorted. Last month, the Cancer Center experienced a data breach, exposing data for an unknown number of patients. Some of t… Continue reading Seattle cancer patients face blackmail threats after recent Fred Hutch data breach
Jordan Robertson and Riley Griffin report: On March 15, 2020, just days after the US declared a national emergency because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the computer network for the US Department of Health and Human Services briefly vanished from the inter… Continue reading The Untold Story of a Massive Hack at HHS in Covid’s Early Days
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed new rules to shield consumers from criminals who hijack their phone numbers in SIM swapping attacks and port-out fraud. FCC’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force i… Continue reading FCC adopts new rules to protect consumers from SIM-swapping attacks
Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice reports that the NoEscape ransomware gang is threatening to release 1.5 TB of data from PruittHealth Network. De Felice was unable to obtain any statements or responses from either PruittHealth or the threat acto… Continue reading NoEscape gang continues to use DDoS to pressure reluctant victims to negotiate
Brian Krebs reports: Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki, a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. … Continue reading Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial