WTSP reports: A former employee is accused of taking photos of patients’ driver’s licenses and credit card information, according to TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track. TGH says they think the former employee took pictures of three people’s personal information while working alone on Sept. 9, at the intake window of its Seminole location….
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Judson ISD’s ransomware nightmare won’t be cheap
Brandon Lingle really laces into Judson ISD over their incident response and transparency in the wake of a June ransomware incident. It appears that the district paid an undisclosed amount of ransom to unidentified threat actors, but it’s not clear what they got for that ransom payment. It was a month before phone and email…
Uber found to have breached Australian’s privacy following 2016 hack
Cameron Abbott and Jacqueline Patishmanof K&L Gates write: In 2017, Uber disclosed to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) a breach of its some 57 million global users and driver’s personal information (including approximately 1.2 million Australians). Last Friday, the OAIC determined that Uber had breached the Australian Privacy Act by failing to take reasonable steps to…
When Ransomware Group REvil Vanished, Its Victims Were Stranded
While Kaseya clients and their clients got some welcome help in the past few days when Kaseya announced that they had a universal decryptor go give clients — a decryptor that they claim they did not pay anyone in any way to obtain — there are are still other victims of REvil struggling. Kartikay Mehrotra…
Florida Heart Associates ransomware attack in May still impacting services and care
A May, 2021 ransomware incident impacting Florida Heart Associates was added to HHS’s breach tool this month. But what the tool doesn’t show was the significant impact to the practice’s functioning and patient care. A story on Fox4 in Florida reports that the owners refused to pay an unreported ransom demand and did get control…
Unhacked: 121 Tools Against Ransomware On A Single Website
Europol has issued a press release about No More Ransom web site and its value in helping victims. You can read the statistics on Europol’s site, but here’s an image from the release: Read the full press release here. A new No More Ransom website has been launched to mark the project’s fifth year. Modern and…