Mission Community Hospital in California allegedly experienced a ransomware attack on April 29. On Wednesday, RansomHouse threat actors claimed responsibility for the attack and provided a number of files as proof. They claim to have downloaded 2.5 TB of data. From the proof files, it appears that RansomHouse accessed the imaging system and image...
Jonathan Greig reports: An April ransomware attack on a biotech company resulted in the compromise of test information and personal data of nearly 2.5 million people, according to regulatory filings. Enzo Biochem, a New York-based biosciences and diagnostics company, said that on April 6 it experienced a ransomware attack that involved the “unauthorized access...
Jordan Highsmith reports: An investigation determined the Hillsborough County Supervisors of Elections Office underwent an illegal data breach in early May, exposing more than 50,000 people’s voter information. An unauthorized user appeared to have illegally accessed and copied files containing personal identification information, such as social security or driver’s license numbers, the Hillsborough County Supervisor...
The Record reports: Ukrainian hackers have breached the systems of Skolkovo Foundation, the agency which oversees the high-tech business area located on the outskirts of Moscow. The Foundation was founded and charged by Russian former President Dmitry Medvedev to rival Silicon Valley in the U.S. According to Skolkovo’s statement, the hackers managed to gain limited...
Logan Ramsey reports: A local clinic was forced to close its doors temporarily following a cyberattack on its computer systems on Monday morning. A local hospital is also redirecting it’s emergency services to other area hospitals. It’s not clear how it happened or when the issue will be resolved, but Mountain View Hospital spokesman...
AP reports: Greece’s Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s history, aimed at disabling a centralized high school examination platform. It said the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks aimed at overwhelming the platform occurred for a second consecutive day Tuesday. The...
In what is likely making some people a bit nervous, the users database for RaidForums has been leaked on a forum. The database appears to date to September 2020. It contains entries for the site owner, Omnipotent, as well as moderators, and well-known users. DataBreaches spot-checked the database and found individuals with their...
Sam Drysdale and Michael P. Norton report: State insurance regulators have opened an examination into a cyberattack on one of the state’s largest health insurance providers. The Division of Insurance is monitoring the Point32Health data breach, which may have compromised personal data including addresses, medical history and Social Security numbers of current and former...
Brandon Vigliaro reports: The fallout from an eight-month-old cyber attack on a county in Long Island, New York has devolved into mud-slinging as leaders try to figure out just what is going on. Suffolk County was hit with a ransomware attack in early September 2022, which led county executive Steve Bellone to issue nine separate...
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $300,000 from Sports Warehouse Inc. (Sports Warehouse), an online sporting goods retailer for failing to protect 2.5 million consumers’ personal data. Sports Warehouse, which owns the online sporting goods websites Tennis Warehouse, Running Warehouse, Skate Warehouse, and Tackle Warehouse, had poor data security that left...