Aaron Derfel reports: The Jewish General Hospital and its sister institutions in the west end are scrambling to contain what appears to be a computer virus that struck its information technology systems Wednesday evening. Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, executive director of the health authority in charge of the Jewish General, denied it was a ransomware attack,…
Month: October 2020
Threat actors dump personal employee and student data from Walled Lake Consolidated District
One of the k-12 district ransomware attacks that DataBreaches.net has been following involves Walled Lake Consolidated District in Michigan. The district suffered a ransomware attack on or about October 10 that they are still working to recover from. But while they focus on recovery of systems, the threat actors have tried to pressure on them…
College Community School District notifies parents of Medicaid billing service breach
DataBreaches.net has previously noted a breach involving a Medicaid billing service that school districts use. Timberline Billing Service, LLC has not responded to this site’s inquiries (yet). Today, this site also reached out to College Community School District, one of the almost 200 Iowa school district that use Timberline. No reply has been received from…
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Notification of Technology Management Resources Security Incide
Note: the following is a press release from AMMC. DataBreaches.net reached out to Technology Management Resources, but has received no reply by publication time. This post will be updated if a reply is received. Arkansas Methodist Medical Center (“AMMC”) has a lockbox service with IBERIABANK for collecting and processing payments from our patients and/or customers….
Taiwan’s UMC pleads guilty, fined $60 mln in trade secret theft case
Reuters reports: Taiwan’s UMC has pleaded guilty to trade secret theft in the United States and will pay a $60 million fine in a case where it was accused of helping a Chinese state-owned chipmaker steal secrets from Micron Technology Inc. The fine is the second-largest ever in a criminal trade secret prosecution, the U.S….
Pharma data breaches should stop once data protection law comes into force
Na Vijayshankar reports: Three major cyber attacks in the Indian pharma industry in the last few months have left people wondering whether there is a pattern indicating the reason for this spurt. First was the Breach Candy Hospital one in February 2020 where over 121 million medical records were compromised. Of these, 120 million were…