Bill Toulas reports: Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Collectively, they come with a download count of 75 million. The extensions featured legitimate functionality to keep users unaware of the malicious behavior that came in obfuscated code to deliver the…
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HHS OCR settles charges against Manasa Health Center for disclosing PHI in response to a negative online review
New Jersey psychiatry practice pays $30,000 to settle complaint about impermissible disclosure of protected health information by disclosing this information in online review Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces a settlement with Manasa Health Center, LLC, a health care provider in New Jersey that provides…
Can Exposed[.]vc attract BreachForum’s loyal users? It’s trying to.
In a somewhat unusual approach to marketing, a new hacking-related forum intentionally leaked a database with the usernames and email addresses of many of the very people it hopes will register for its new forum — and then advertised the leak. How’s that working out for them so far? When RAIDForums was seized by law…
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources discloses ransomware attack
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources has disclosed that they were hit with a ransomware attack on April 3. They do not indicate what group attacked them, or what any ransom demand may have been, and DataBreaches has not seen this incident on any leak site to date. According to their notification, “The investigation remains ongoing,…
Canopy Children’s Solutions continues to investigate ransomware attack in April
In early May, a new group of threat actors known as Nokoyawa added Canopy Children’s Solutions in Mississippi to their leak site. On June 2, Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc., d.b.a. Canopy Children’s Solutions (“Canopy”) a press release acknowledging that on April 4, they experienced an attack that…
Mission Community Hospital attackers exploited vulnerabilites in Paragon and Cisco
As Mission Community Hospital in California continues to investigate a cyberattack in April, more details have emerged as to how the attack by RansomHouse threat actors occurred. As previously reported, the RansomHouse listing for Mission Community Hospital claimed to have 2.5 TB of data and provided some proof of claims. RansomHouse also included a note…