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Emerging cybersecurity threats in healthcare | Special Report

Ron Southwick of Chief Healthcare Executive notes what a bad  year this has already been in terms of breaches in the healthcare sector, but notes things may even get worse: Even with those dire signs about the dangers of cyberattacks, experts warn that health systems will face new and emerging threats in the years...

Ransomware group claimed to have hit a New Jersey cardiology group. Did they?

On September 2, the NoEscape ransomware group added Mulkay Cardiology Consultants to their leak site and claimed to have successfully encrypted them. “We have 60GB of confidential and personal data on more than 30,000 patients, scans, doctor’s conclusions about patients and many other confidential information,” they claimed in their listing about the New Jersey...

Outage at Canadian airports was from a DDoS attack

La Press reports (automatic machine translation follows): The widespread breakdown of border terminals in Canadian airports on Sunday, claimed by a group of pro-Russian hackers, was indeed the result of a computer attack. This would thus be a rare case, if not the first, where such an assault has real impacts on the country’s infrastructure,...

“I’m Not Pro-Russia and I’m Not a Terrorist!” —- InfraGard and Airbus Hacker “USDoD” Unveils His New Campaigns

The first time DataBreaches remembers hearing about the man who calls himself “USDoD” was when he posted a sales listing for member data from InfraGard. He had not only managed to acquire data on 80,000 members of an organization dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure, but his revelation of his method exposed some embarrassingly inept...

He’s smart, he’s an accomplished liar, and now Impotent says he’s retired.

Sometimes people surprise me. “Impotent” did. He’s gone by a number of usernames online over the past few years.  “Everyone knows me under many different aliases. Let’s actually call me mainly Pulpo. I also used ‘Creeper, ‘Impotent,’ ‘Kmeta,’ ‘KmetaNaEvropa,’ and ‘Promise,’  but on my markets, I was usually just ‘Admin.’ The main identities I...

Nigerian National Pleads Guilty to $1.25 Million Business Email Compromise Scam Impacting U.S. Company

 WASHINGTON – Onwuchekwa Nnanna Kalu, 39, a Nigerian National from Rivers State, Nigeria, pleaded guilty today to stealing $1.25 million from an investment firm located in Boston, through a business email compromise (“BEC”) scam. The plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist, of the FBI Washington...

NHS Staff Reprimanded For WhatsApp Data Sharing

Phil Muncaster reports: An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the UK’s data protection regulator after it was discovered that staff had been sharing patient details on an unapproved app for two years. Some 26 staff at NHS Lanarkshire accessed the WhatsApp group between April 2020 and April 2022, entering sensitive patient data including...

Rush Health Must Face Suit Over Health-Info Sharing With Google

Christopher Brown reports: Rush System for Health must defend a proposed class action alleging it shared health information of patients using its patient portal with Google Inc. and other third parties, in breach of its contract with patients and in violation of the Illinois Eavesdropping Act. Marguerite Kurowski successfully stated a claim for breach of contract...