Earlier this week, Jake Bright of TechCrunch reported that security researcher Anurag Sen had found an exposed database belonging to LogBox, a South African medical data app that allows patients to share information with their doctors more easily. According to TechCrunch’s report, the researcher had found an exposed database containing account access tokens for...
Derek Kortepeter reports: Proofpoint researchers have published findings on a campaign involving the Hakbit ransomware. As their blog post states, the ransomware is being spread via spear-phishing emails targeted at individuals in “mid-level positions across the pharmaceutical, legal, financial, business service, retail, and healthcare sector.” The attacks, described as low-volume, are specifically targeting employees of organizations located...
Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Washington suffered a ransomware attack in 2019. Despite their best efforts, not all data was recoverable. And not surprisingly in our litigious society, a lawsuit was filed against it. According to a proposed settlement announced this week, the lawsuit claims that Grays Harbor was responsible for the Data Incident...
Joe Wallen reports: Hackers claim they have accessed the personal data of 80,000 Covid-19 patients in New Delhi stored on a local government website, in protest at the treatment of beleaguered healthcare workers. The Kerala Cyber Hackers group says it broke into the Delhi Government’s Delhi State Health Mission website in less than 10 minutes on Saturday night....
There’s an update to the litigation stemming from two UnityPoint Health phishing incidents that were discovered within months of each other in 2018. Part of the lawsuit was thrown out in 2019, but negligence claims were allowed to go forward. Not surprisingly, that seemed to result in a settlement. Jessica Davis reports: Iowa Health...