As reported by East Texas Radio: Officials have determined that 8,600 counseling records and about 100 people’s government-issued identification numbers were stolen in a cyberattack at Stephen F. Austin State University last month. The cyber-attack hit SFA, causing their systems to go down. When officials discovered what happened, the university removed internet connections to contain…
Author: Dissent
Now a third plastic surgery practice has nude patient photos leaked
Earlier this week, DataBreaches reported that two plastic surgery practices in California had both suffered cyberattacks. When the doctors did not pay ransom demands, attackers leaked nude patient pictures and patient info. One attack was by AlphV (BlackCat) on Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery. The other attack was by an unnamed group or individual on Gary…
Microsoft to Offer Some Cybersecurity Tools Free After Suspected China Hack
Dustin Volz and Robert McMillan report: Microsoft said it plans to offer free some tools that can spot cyberattacks following last week’s disclosure of a major security breach linked to Chinese hackers that was undetectable for some customers. The decision to open up access to its back-end systems that log activity on the cloud came after Microsoft’s tiered…
Webinar – The New Breed of State Health Privacy Laws
There are so many webinars each week that I generally don’t sign up for many or even post links to them, but this one really caught my eye because there have been so many recent changes at the state level. The New Breed of State Health Privacy Laws Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 2 PM…
Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following ‘extensive cyberattack’
Paul Kunert reports: Norwegian mining and recycling giant TOMRA says it has isolated tech systems as it deals with an “extensive cyberattack.” TOMRA has multiple divisions that focus on areas including waste and recycling solutions, metal sorting systems, mining machine systems and food sorting equipment. It turned over $1.2 billion in calendar 2022. Read more…
Announce: New category on DataBreaches.net
Given the explosion of news and analyses concerning artificial intelligence, a category for the topic has now been added to DataBreaches.net. To find articles prior to 2022, use the site’s search function for “Artificial Intelligence.”