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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
May 31 – Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published an update to the frequently asked questions (FAQs) webpage concerning the Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident. The webpage, first… Continue reading HHS OCR: Covered entities affected by the Change Healthcare breach may delegate tasks of providing HIPAA breach notifications to Change Healthcare
A court-authorized international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a botnet used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations. As part of this opera… Continue reading 911 S5 Botnet Dismantled and Its Administrator Arrested in Coordinated International Operation
Click2Houston reports: A 18-year-old student at Klein Forest High School is currently wanted by police after they say he was responsible for cyber attacks that disrupted STAAR testing for thousands of students in the district. Keontra Lamont Kenemore i… Continue reading Klein ISD student accused of orchestrating cyber attack that disrupted STAAR testing
On May 23, the U.S. Department of Justice, joined by 29 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia, sued Live Nation Entertainment and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ticketmaster, for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. In his prepared remarks… Continue reading Hacked? Ticketmaster’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week just got worse
A&A Services, which does business as Sav-Rx, is notifying 2,812,336 patients of a hacking incident in October 2023. According to its submissions to the California and Maine attorneys general, Sav-Rx detected an interruption to their network on Octo… Continue reading Sav-Rx notifies 2.8 million patients of October 2023 data breach
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe reports: The RansomHub group made headlines last February when, following a cyberattack on Change Healthcare, they disrupted operations for several weeks. Change Healthcare is the largest U.S. provider of revenue and pa… Continue reading American Clinical Solutions: Over 400,000 Medical Records in the Hands of RansomHub
The Mālama I Ke Ola Health Center Team discovered a breach on May 7 that they initially described as an IT or tech incident. They have now made it clearer that this was a cyberattack. In a statement on their website on May 23, they write: Aloha Patient… Continue reading Mālama I Ke Ola Health Center cyberattack affecting services
United Urology Group describes itself as a national network of urology specialists with corporate headquarters in Maryland. Their network includes Arizona Urology Specialists Phoenix, Arizona Urology Specialists Tucson, Chesapeake Urology, Colorado Uro… Continue reading United Urology Group appears to be a victim of a ransomware attack; some patient data already leaked
Zack Whittaker reports: A consumer-grade spyware app has been found running on the check-in systems of at least three Wyndham hotels across the United States, TechCrunch has learned. The app, called pcTattletale, stealthily and continually captured scr… Continue reading Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers