Chris Keall reports: Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster is planning an investigation after Wellington-based IT provider Mercury IT was hit by a ransomware attack – potentially compromising sensitive data it hosts for multiple clients, including health insurer Accuro, BusinessNZ, the NZ National Nurses Association and the Ministry of Justice, with 15,000 Coroners Court files taken out. The…
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Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange disruption was due to a ransomware attack
Rackspace has issued another update to its recent security incident. It now discloses that this was a ransomware attack: We appreciate your patience as we continue to work through the security issues that have affected our Hosted Exchange environment. As you know, on Friday, December 2nd, 2022, we became aware of suspicious activity and immediately…
NJ: With servers still offline, Hudson County Schools of Technology goes old-school low tech
Ron Zeitlinger reports: The Hudson County Schools of Technology (HCST) took a trip back in time to the 1980s for a second straight day Tuesday. The internal computer servers at the district, which includes High Tech High School in Secaucus and County Prep and Explore Middle School in Jersey City, remained offline, leading to a…
Another class action lawsuit against Empress EMS filed over July ransomware attack
Another lawsuit has been filed in the wake of a ransomware attack on a New York ambulance service. Now we hear that the victim paid ransom. Will it make a difference? Firehouse reports: A lawsuit has been filed against Empress Ambulance in New York after hackers accessed patient information. According to the class action lawsuit…
Cyberattack at the Versailles hospital center: the trail of a LockBit usurper
Valéry Rieß-Marchive reports some details on the ransomware incident involving André-Mignot hospital. He suggests that someone — but not the LockBit 3.0 franchise itself — used LockBit 3.0 Black to attack the hospital and to issue a $100,000 ransom demand. You can read his reporting and analysis on LeMagIT. From reviewing his material and additional…
In: After AIIMS, Chinese hackers ATTACK ICMR website over 6000 times in a day
Zee Media reports: Days after targeting the Delhi AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital websites, a group of hackers allegedly tried to hack the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). According to reports, the ICMR website was attacked around 6000 times in a day. The sources citing government officials said that hackers apparently from…