Back in January, this site noted that a ransomware attack on Netgain Technology LLC had impacted Ramsey County. Previous coverage of the Netgain Technology attack had reported that Netgain had stated that they were victims of a ransomware attack on November 24th, 2020 and On December 4th, customers began receiving emails from Netgain stating that…
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Hackers obtain sensitive data on UK aid projects overseas
Ben Quinn reports: Hackers have obtained sensitive documents relating to British aid projects, including details related to projects funded by a secretive national security fund. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and experts from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an arm of GCHQ, are investigating how a “third party” came to obtain the data. Read…
PA: Delco School District Missing ‘Millions,’ Suggests Hackers Took It
NBC10 reports: A law enforcement investigation is underway Friday after a school district reported it was missing an expected multimillion-dollar payment from the state, and a district official speculated it was due to hackers. The receiver of the Chester Upland School District, Juan Baughn, told the Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday that “millions” were lost due to a “cyber…
TX: Elara Caring notifies more than 100,000 patients after corporate email accounts hacked
Elara Caring, a provider of home-based care, suffered a data security breach that they learned about in mid-December. Last month, they started notifying more than 100,400 patients. A notice on their web site explains that a number of corporate email accounts had been compromised — accounts that contained both employee and patient information. Elara Caring…
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine impacted by Accellion breach, notifies patients
It appears that SIU was impacted by the Accellion breach that has been in the news a lot this past month. SIU is the first entity, however, to disclose that the incident impacted protected health information (PHI), although as DataBreaches.net reported, this site found what might be PHI in Jones Day’s dumped data. SIU does…
TX: ProPath Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
ProPath Services, LLC in Texas has notified patients of a data security breach stemming from compromise of two employees’ email accounts. The incident occurred in 2020, but ProPath doesn’t state exactly when they first discovered the breach. In a statement on their web site, the pathology service provider explains that on January 28, they learned…