Jonathan Greig reports: The University of Michigan announced that it has severed its ties to the internet and cut off access to some systems after experiencing a cyberattack that began on Sunday. In a message to the school’s more than 51,000 students on Monday, the school’s chief information officer Ravi Pendse said that the university…
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Developing: Hospital Sisters Health System and Prevea Health hit by cyberattack
Yesterday, DataBreaches received a phone call from an employee at St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The employee was asking if we knew anything about a cyberattack on Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) and stated that everything had been down for two days but the employees were not really being given information other than…
Za: How hacker stole R600K from Eastern Cape schools
Last week, the Specialised Commercial Crime Court of East London, Eastern Cape, handed down a prison sentence of three years to a hacker who stole just under R600 000 from the province’s education department. The crime took place in 2013, when Bruce Owen, in his thirties at the time, broke into the inner workings of…
Update: Tucson Unified School District sends out notifications about January cyberattack
There’s another update to the January cyberattack on TUSD by the Royal ransomware group. While the district was still claiming that sensitive data hadn’t been compromised, data from employees was already being leaked on the dark web as early as February. In the last week of August, TUSD sent out notifications to 28,948 people and…
NL: Security breach at land registry exposes millions of addresses
Dutch News reports: A data breach at the Dutch land registry Kadaster has exposed the addresses of every homeowner in the Netherlands, an investigation by RTL Nieuws has found. The privacy watchdog AP called for the agency to close the loophole immediately after it was discovered by journalists. The Kadaster’s website includes a search facility…
Jp: Medical organizations and IT vendors “should bear part of the cyber damage”.
[Translation:] A document released on August 24 by the Japan Medical Association Policy Research Institute (Nichi-Isouken), which aims to plan medical policy, is causing controversy on SNS. Regarding contracts and responsibility sharing between medical institutions and system vendors, based on the “principle of good faith”, if the vendor’s risk explanation is insufficient, the medical institution…