Southern Minnesota News reports: Mankato-based Crystal Valley says a ransomware attack has infected their computer systems. The attack “severely interrupted” the daily operations, according to a company press release. Read more on SMN. The Crystal Valley Cooperative is a farm supply and grain marketing cooperative that serves Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa, so this...
Katharine Huntley reports: Listeners might not know it, but thousands of people in radio stations across the nation are working around the clock to get commercials on the air after they were targeted by Russian hackers. “It started with an email on Sunday night that you really don’t want to get,” Dan Dubonnet said....
William Turton reports: Iowa-based grain cooperative New Cooperative Inc. was struck by ransomware in recent days and has shut down its computer systems as it tries to mitigate the attack. The attack occurred on or around Friday, according to Allan Liska, senior threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future Inc. The ransomware gang, which goes by the...
I do not recall ever seeing Horizon House in Philadelphia listed on any dedicated leak site used by ransomware groups, but according to a press release issued last week, Horizon House experienced a ransomware attack in March 2 and March 5 of this year that encrypted their files and allowed the unknown threat actor...
Katie Nixon reports: A former Ashland City Elementary STEM Academy Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) president is facing theft, forgery and computer crimes charges after an investigation led by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office resulted her indictment Investigators were made aware of Jessica Tandy, 29, after former PTO officials reported the misappropriated funds. Read more on The Tennessean.
What does it say when a HIPAA lawyer with years of experience says he didn’t know the FTC has a health breach notification rule? Seen on Jeff Drummond’s blog: ” The U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement this week confirming that connected devices and health apps that use or collect consumers’ health information must notify...
Maddie McQueen reports: Late Sunday night, Fleming County High School had quite the scare when students and parents reported seeing an email and social media posts threatening a school shooting, said to happen on Monday. Police say the hacker is a 14-year-old girl at the school, however, police determined the threat wouldn’t be...
Mitch Keegan reports: The Mankato Clinic has notified more than 500 patients of a breach of unsecured protected health information. In a news release, Mankato Clinic says on August 3rd an electronic spreadsheet containing patient information for 535 patients was mistakenly e-mailed to a colleague of a Mankato Clinic employee to an external e-mail account. The...
12News reports: A Tempe nurse assistant is accused of stealing the identities of her patients to lease apartments and purchase expensive vehicles. Sierra Johnson, 24, is facing several criminal charges after investigators connected her to several cases of fraud and identity theft throughout the Valley. Johnson worked at various rehabilitation facilities in Mesa, Goodyear,...
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