Collaborate Disseminate
Although some threat groups or affiliates have sworn off attacking the medical sector with ransomware, not all have. On Sunday evening, June 2, Special Health Resources (“SHR”) posted a notice on their Facebook account: We are currently exp… Continue reading Special Health Resources’ “technical difficulties” are due to a ransomware attack
The Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A) data breach was the biggest reported breach involving protected health information in 2023, with more than 13 million patients affected1. Now WBEZ in Chicago reports that there is a federal criminal investi… Continue reading Federal criminal investigation involving Perry Johnson & Associates data breach
Adventist Health Tulare has issued a press release about a breach at a business associate in Nebraska. The June 7 press release states, “A data security incident was recently discovered by Signature Performance, an agency working on behalf of Adv… Continue reading 70,000 Adventist Health Tulare patients being notified of HIPAA breach by payment collections associate
Zack Whittaker reports: Snowflake’s security problems following a recent spate of customer data thefts are, for want of a better word, snowballing. After Ticketmaster was the first company to link its recent data breach to the cloud data company Snowfl… Continue reading What Snowflake isn’t saying about its customer data breaches
What happens when threat actors leak data on the dark web but the victim entity doesn’t access it in time to figure out what was leaked? That’s what happened to PruittHealth in Georgia last year. How many people are they notifying because t… Continue reading PruittHealth was hacked back in November. Here’s what we STILL don’t know.
In March 2023, United Seating and Mobility, LLC, d/b/a Numotion (“Numotion”) paid the government $7 million to resolve allegations that it made false claims in submitting reimbursement requests to Kentucky Medicaid, two of Kentucky Medicai… Continue reading Numotion data breach affected 602,265 patients
Here’s your occasional reminder about insider-wrongdoing breaches. Katie Sergent reports: City officials notified all staff of a data breach impacting about 250 current and former city employees, according to Kalamazoo Communications Manager Mic… Continue reading Data breach involving two former Kalamazoo employees under criminal investigation
Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported priva… Continue reading Google Database Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
The Hacker News reports: Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caus… Continue reading Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers
Don Brinkerhoff reports: A group of high school juniors in Davis County are hacking the hackers to protect phishing victims. “All my friends and peers around me got hacked,” said Charles Mortensen a Davis County student. Mortensen said in one case, a f… Continue reading Davis County high school students are hacking the hackers behind phishing schemes