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Kroger notifies more than 82,000 Postal Prescription Service patients of mistaken information sharing

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...

Shoreline College website hacked; officials investigating

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...

Oak Ridge malware attack: Police investigating as city offices remain closed

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...

Cyberattack disrupts Spanish medicine distribution

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...

More victims possibly identified in GoAnywhere vulnerability incident

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...

Stung by Free Decryptor, Ransomware Group Embraces Extortion

Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Not all ransomware groups wield crypto-locking malware. In their continuing quest for extortionate profits, some have moved away from encryption and pressure victims purely by threatening to leak stolen data unless they receive a ransom payment. This seems to have been the case for BianLian, a prolific ransomware group that...