On September 15, DataBreaches reported LockBit3.0 had added Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida to their dark web leak site. There is currently less than two days left on their countdown clock to leak data, although LockBit3.0 does not always strictly follow up with their own deadlines. While the district originally reported on September...
On Friday, The Jamaica Gleaner reported that the government of Bermuda was hit by a cyberattack, suspected of originating in Russia. In early reports, the government said its telephone, Internet and e-mail systems were disrupted and that all departments were affected, which suggests this was a ransomware attack. The Bermuda Police Service said that...
Anthony Warren reports from Mississippi: Hinds County approved more than than $600,000 in payments Friday to restore its computer system after cyberattacks took it down days ago. At an emergency board meeting on Friday afternoon, the board voted 3-0 to approve paying $335,100 for cyber recovery services to Netlink Voice LLC, and up to...
Mark Harrington reports from Long Island: Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone last week signed the 13th “local emergency order” tied to the September 2022 ransomware attack, delaying the county operating budget by a week while also declaring states of emergencies tied to the migrant crisis and Hurricane Lee. The latest cyberattack-related emergency declaration cites the...
On Friday, The Kyiv Independent reported that Russian proxies in occupied Crimea announced that there was a cyberattack of an “unprecedented” scale. “The attack occurred after the Russian Defense Ministry announced that a Ukrainian missile had struck Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol earlier in the day on Sept. 22,” they announced. More...
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...
Well, we expected there would be a lot of schools notified by the National Student Clearinghouse about the MOVEit breach, but now we have a bit more of the scope. NSC has notified the California Attorney General’s Office on behalf of almost 900 schools. Their notification letter to those affected indicated that the types...
It appears that Pain Care Specialists in Oregon became the victim of an attack by AlphV. The threat actors added the medical entity to their leak site earlier today with some files with personal information on employees and patients. AlphV’s listing noted that the breach occurred on September 13, and, “As a result of...
Melia Masumoto reports: Cedar Park Middle School sent out an email to 207 parents earlier this week, requesting updated vaccine records. But without blind coping the email addresses, every address on the email was visible to all the recipients. … The email requested an updated immunization record for those students because they were missing...
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