The Canadian Press reports: The union representing public high school teachers in Ontario says it was the victim of a ransomware attack earlier this year that compromised members’ personal information. The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation says it discovered in late May that an “unauthorized third party” accessed and encrypted its systems between May 25…
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In: Ransomware suspected as AIIMS servers go down, trigger long waits
Soumya Pillai reports: A suspected ransomware attack hit servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday, leading to long waits for patients as registrations, sample processing and billing as computers went down. According to doctors, services for out-patient (OPD) and in-patient (IPD) departments were affected since 7am on Wednesday, halting all…
HC3 Alert on Lorenz Ransomware
HC3 has issued an alert about Lorenz ransomware. Lorenz threat actors have been mentioned on DataBreaches’ site several times since 2021. In one case they attacked and exfiltrated data of 500,000 patients of Wolfe Clinic in Iowa, and they recently posted data from Salud Family Health in Colorado. Salud has not yet reported a number…
The Smith Family says details of around 80,000 donors may have been exposed in hacking attack
ABC reports: The Smith Family says it has informed around 80,000 donors their personal details may have been accessed after it was targeted by a hacker who attempted to steal money. The Australian charity, which supports disadvantaged children, said in a statement the attempts by the hacker to steal money were unsuccessful. It said an…
Third Circuit Finds Standing for Victim of Data Breach, Citing ‘Imminent Harm’
Harris Freier and Avi R. Jerushalmy write: It comes as no surprise that cybersecurity is at the forefront of business owners’ minds across the globe. Corporate cyberattacks were at an all-time high last year, up 50% year over year. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reported in February that it is aware of ransomware incidents against 14…
Hackers breach energy orgs via bugs in discontinued web server
Sergiiu Gatlan reports: Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target and compromise organizations in the energy sector. Read more at BleepingComputer.