Casey Harper reports that Congress finally got around to questioning CMS about a ransomware attack on Healthcare Management Solutions, a CMS subcontractor. The attack involved Medicare and Medicaid numbers. Hundreds of thousands of Americans’ personal information is at risk after Medicare’s data was breached. Now, lawmakers want answers. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability...
Zack Whittaker reports: Parents are still looking for answers weeks after hackers stole the personal data of thousands of users from kids’ tech coding camp iD Tech, with some fearing that their children’s data was compromised in the data breach. iD Tech, which provides on-campus classes and online tech and coding courses for kids,...
On March 10, Kroger’s Healthy Options program, Postal Prescription Services (PPS), issued a statement about a privacy breach. According to their statement, some PPS patients’ names and email addresses were erroneously shared with the grocery side of Kroger’s business due to an internal error. Kroger doesn’t state when the breach first occurred, but they...
Monica Velez reports: A ransomware attack has forced the majority of Shoreline Community College students and staff to transition to remote work until further notice, officials confirmed Thursday. Local and federal officials are investigating. Although Shoreline’s campus remains open, the website is down and Wi-Fi on campus is inaccessible. The Parent Child Center remains open. Classes...
Robert Lemos reports: Companies in every industry continue to leave backup and storage platforms unsecured, with more than a dozen issues, including insecure network settings and unaddressed CVEs, affecting the average device. That leaves these repositories — often the first line of protection in the event of a ransomware attack — as sitting ducks for...
Donna Smith reports: As city of Oak Ridge employees continued to work offline because of a malware attack on the city’s computer network, officials announced Wednesday afternoon they are working with law enforcement to investigate the attack. When asked if foul play was suspected, city senior communications specialist Lauren Gray said an investigation is considered standard...
Conor Faulkner reports: A cyberattack on a leading pharmaceutical supply company has disrupted the distribution of medicines to Spanish pharmacies. The attack, which started last Friday and is still ongoing, has affected wholesale supplier Alliance Healthcare’s servers and delayed and even prevented the normal delivery of some medicines to pharmacies in Spain, according to Spanish...
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report: The number of victims affected by a mass-ransomware attack, caused by a bug in a popular data transfer tool used by businesses around the world, continues to grow as another organization tells TechCrunch that it was also hacked. Canadian financing giant Investissement Québec confirmed to TechCrunch that “some employee...
Tori Bedford reports: Thousands of employees in the Massachusetts cannabis industry received an official email last week about a major data breach: the name, home and email address, phone number and date of birth of every cannabis worker in the state had been made public in an “inadvertent release of agency documents” by the...
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