Sean Lyngaas reports: At least 100,000 people could have had their data compromised by a hack of contractors at the Department of Health and Human Services, a department official said Thursday, making it the latest US government agency to be caught up in a sweeping cyberattack connected to Russian cybercriminals. HHS notified Congress of the breach on…
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Mountain View Hospital restores clinical functions; culprit behind cyberattack still unknown
Logan Ramsey provides an update on a previously noted ransomware attack: An area hospital has been working for over a month now to resolve a cyberattack and progress is being made. Mountain View Hospital has managed to restore clinical functions for itself, Idaho Falls Community Hospital and its partner clinics. The IT team and other…
French Govt. Wants to Inject Domain Blocking Lists Directly Into Web Browsers
From TorrentFreak: A coordinated effort to associate online piracy with malware, identity theft and banking fraud, is well underway. As a result, legislation beyond copyright infringement is likely to play a key role in tackling piracy moving forward. The French government’s current plan for tackling online harms envisions state-operated domain blocking lists being injected directly…
Henrietta Johnson Medical Center patients affected by breach at Delaware Health Net
CORRECTION AND UPDATE: DataBreaches has been contacted by a spokesperson for Delaware Health Information Network who says that they were not the party responsible for this breach and this site should not have linked to them and should have linked to Delaware Health Net if they were the responsible party. DataBreaches checked the medical center’s…
High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch@ngeme!’
File this in your “You did WHAT?!” file. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports that after a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, Oak Park and River Forest High School in Illinois did a global replace, changing all students’ passwords to “Ch@ngeme!” to prompt them to change their password. What could possibly go wrong if you now know…
Costs of some 2022 ransomware attacks: Whitworth University hit with federal lawsuit, Little Rock School District tallies its costs
Whitworth University may start experiencing more legal costs stemming from a ransomware attack in 2022. Kip Hill reports: A Whitworth University student is asking a federal judge to approve a class action against the school for damages stemming from a ransomware attack discovered in July 2022 that affected more than 65,500 people. The lawsuit, filed…