Bill Toulas reports: A financially motivated threat actor is hacking telecommunication service providers and business process outsourcing firms, actively reversing defensive mitigations applied when the breach is detected. The campaign was spotted by Crowdstrike, who says the attacks started in June 2022 and are still ongoing, with the security researchers able to identify five distinct…
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Four Men Arrested In Transnational Wire Fraud And Identity Theft Conspiracy
Press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida: Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of four indictments charging Akinola Taylor (Nigeria), Olayemi Adafin (United Kingdom), Olakunle Oyebanjo (Nigeria), and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe (Nigeria), with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, filing false claims with the United States,…
Little Rock School Board will meet to decide whether to negotiate settlement after data security breach
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School Board will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday to decide on whether to negotiate a settlement to a “network issue” that was characterized last week as a “data security incident” that likely resulted in unauthorized extraction of district data. The district announced the special meeting Sunday…
CommonSpirit Health Provides Cyberattack Update and Notification of Data Breach Involving Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Washington state
There was an update on December 1 to the CommonSpirit ransomware attack that DataBreaches has reported on multiple times already. Press release: On October 2, 2022, CommonSpirit detected activity on its IT network that was later determined to be ransomware. CommonSpirit immediately took steps to secure the network, which included proactively taking certain systems offline, and…
Fr: Versailles hospital targeted by cyberattack
California 18 reports: The Versailles hospital center, located in Chesnay-Rocquencourt (Yvelines), has been targeted since Saturday evening by a cyberattack which is disrupting its activity, the establishment’s management said on Sunday. confirming information from franceinfo. The reception of patients is therefore ” limit “explained the hospital, adding that the computer system had been cut and a crisis…
November settlements in some class action lawsuits involving health information
There were several settlements in November involving class action lawsuits against entities where the breach involved protected health information or health data. Here’s a brief recap of them: Ambry Genetics agreed to pay $12.25 million to resolve claims that a 2020 data breach compromised consumer health data and other identifiers. The settlement benefits patients whose…