A years-old privacy breach at Central Health has had a particular impact on pregnant women and new parents, says a St. John’s lawyer who is filed a class-action lawsuit. Bob Buckingham says a disproportionate number of calls to his office regarding the breach are from people who say medical records relating to their pregnancies were…
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Ripe for extortion? Navajo Nation hospital targeted by large-scale ransomware hack
Kevin Collier has a follow-up on the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care cyberattack first reported by DataBreaches.net on February 16. From Collier’s reporting, it seems that those impacted by the breach have yet to be notified. As I’ve advocated many, many times: when PII or PHI are publicly dumped by criminals, taking 60 days to…
PA: Millersville University confirms external cyber attack on network
Millersville University confirmed that on Sunday, February 28 they received an external attack on their network. The external attack on the university’s network caused in-person and virtual classes to be canceled on Monday and Tuesday. Read more on CBS21. They are hoping that because the personally identifiable information on the server was encrypted, it might…
GA: Atlanta Allergy & Asthma hit by Nefilim threat actors
Atlanta Allergy & Asthma (AA&A) proudly proclaims itself to be the largest allergy group in Atlanta, with 17 locations. “For more than 45 years, we have been the experts in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies, asthma, food allergies, sinusitis, and immunologic diseases,” their site notes. What their site does not note yet is that…
Security breach prompts lockdown of some Manitoba student databases
Josh Crabb reports: Electronic databases that contain personal information about some Manitoba students have been temporarily shut down following a security breach. The Maplewood system is run by an Ontario company and is used by 14 school divisions in Manitoba. There’s no evidence any data or personal information was compromised but some parents still have…
US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows
Jason Wilson reports: A Guardian investigation of a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents. But the leak also demonstrates how the radical group has recruited from a broad…