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Khalil Center’s impressively rapid incident response

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Dissent

HHS’s public breach tool added a listing today that was submitted by the Khalil Foundation (DBA Khalil Center). The center describes itself as a psychological and spiritual community wellness center advancing the professional practice of psychology rooted in Islamic principles. They are covered by HIPAA. On December 22, they notified HHS that 1153 individuals had been affected by an incident that they coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” of data on the network server.

There is no notice on their website, but DataBreaches happens to know something about this incident because December 21, DataBreaches called them and left them a VM telling them that their vendor had an unsecured Amazon s3 bucket that was exposing their data. DataBreaches then also called their vendor, Transform Studios in Truckee, and spoke to someone who understood what they were being told. The bucket was quickly secured.

Khalil Center is one of many entities whose publicly exposed data was being used by KillSec3 in extortion attempts. Although the center cannot do anything about the data KillSec3 or others may have already acquired from their leak, at least they have now locked down their data and haven’t wasted their money paying KillSec3 for data that may already be in many hands. As far as researcher @JayeLTee had been able to determine when he found the leak, the data may have been exposed by July 2020.

DataBreaches never heard back from either Khalil Center or their vendor, but commends them both on their speedy incident response. If more information becomes available, this post will be updated.

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