Rachel Ward reports: Victoria’s fire service has reassured employees their personal details have not been posted to the dark web after the organisation was hit by a cyber attack. Fire Rescue Victoria’s IT systems, including dispatch, phones and email, were affected when online criminals hacked the service in December. Read more at Kalgoorlie Miner. Update…
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Report: 25% of Districts Victimized by Cyber Attacks in 2022
Giovanni Albanese reports: San Francisco-based Clever on Thursday released its Cybersecure 2023 report, based on October 2022 surveys of an excess of 800 administrators and more than 3,000 teachers in the U.S. The respondents had differing views on a wide number of issues but the two sides are in agreement that schools need better training, technology and…
University of Miami Health breach notice
Remember when Britton White and DataBreaches discussed employees having their work credentials compromised by infostealers and how employers might want to require employees to notify them whenever an employee’s device was compromised if the device had stored login credentials? University of Miami Health posted a breach notice this week that caught my eye. From the…
PA: Maternal & Family Health Services reveals ransomware incident
Maternal & Family Health Services (“MFHS”) in Pennsylvania has issued a press release about what they describe as a “sophisticated ransomware incident.” At this point, given so many ransomware attacks over the past few years, DataBreaches has no idea what would be considered “sophisticated.” In any event, MFHS began notifying potentially affected individuals, including certain…
Romanian hospital victim of ransomware attack
Radu Dumitrescu reports: The Saint Gheorghe Recovery Hospital in Botoşani, in northeastern Romania, was the target of a ransomware attack in December, and medical activity is still impacted. Hackers demanded 3 Bitcoin for the decryption of the data on the servers. The attack is similar to the one in the summer of 2019, when four…
Jp: Shibuya officials apologize for disrupted services after apparent cyberattack
NHK reports: The Shibuya Ward office in Tokyo has issued a formal apology after an apparent cyberattack disrupted public services on Wednesday. […] On Tuesday, an international hacker group calling themselves “Anonymous” posted on Twitter that “shibuya municipality closes homeless shelter so we close shibuya municipality website.” Read more at NHK.