John Emeigh reports: The Butte School District was forced to shut down its computer system this week to investigate an unknown breach of the network that serves all the public schools in the city. “All I can say is that we’re still investigating the issue and we do not have any clear information of what…
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McLaren Health Care notifying 2.2 million patients about the BlackCat attack in August
On September 30, AlphV threat actors (aka BlackCat) added McLaren Health Care to their dark web leak site. They updated their listing on October 4, claiming to have data on 2.5 million people. That same week, McLaren confirmed that they had been the victim of a ransomware attack it first detected on August 22. Michigan’s…
Optus loses court bid to keep report into cause of cyber-attack secret
Josh Taylor reports a win for transparency: Optus has lost a bid in the federal court to keep secret a report on the cause of the 2022 cyber-attack – which resulted in the personal information of about 10 million customers being exposed – after a judge rejected the telco’s legal privilege claim. After the hack, the company announced…
Basically all of Maine had data stolen by a ransomware gang
Mariella Moon reports: The state agencies of Maine had fallen victim to cybercriminals who exploited a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer tool, making them the latest addition to the growing list of entities affected by the massive hack involving the software. In a notice the government has published about the cybersecurity incident, it said the event…
UK: Nearly £2 million of stolen cryptocurrency to be paid back to victims
An interesting press release from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU): Around £1.9 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency is to be paid back to victims of theft as a result of work by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU). On 27 January this year, 40-year-old Wybo Wiersma, of Het Weike, Goredijk,…
PJ&A data breach also affected millions of Northwell Health patients (1)
News12 on Long Island reports that the Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A) breach reported previously on this site has also affected Northwell Health, a major health system on Long Island. PJ&A is the same medical transcription service vendor whose breach affected 1.2 million patients of Cook County Health in Illinois. That health system was notified…