On July 26, Jeff Burt reported: The LockBit ransomware crew is claiming to have stolen 78GB of data from Italy’s tax agency and is threatening to leak it if a ransom isn’t paid by July 31. The notorious gang put a notice on its dark-web site adding the agency – the Agenzia delle Entrate – to its…
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Kansas MSP shuts down cloud services to fend off cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: A US managed service provider NetStandard suffered a cyberattack causing the company to shut down its MyAppsAnywhere cloud services, consisting of hosted Dynamics GP, Exchange, Sharepoint, and CRM services. According to an email sent to MyAppsAnywhere customers shared on Reddit, the company detected signs of a cyberattack on Tuesday morning and quickly shut down…
Mailing and printing vendor issues breach notice on behalf of more than three dozen health plans
Update: On July 27, OneTouchPoint notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that a total of 1,073,316 people were impacted by their breach. In June, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield disclosed a breach involving their business associate, Matrix. Matrix had been notified by OneTouchPoint of a cyberattack that occurred between April 27 and April 28….
City of Detroit retirees data breach causes concern
Randy Wimbley and David Komer report: …. It’s what Weldon. a Detroit retiree, stumbled upon Wednesday morning after setting up her account on the City of Detroit retirement system’s new online program. “I saw several links called lists, and I clicked on one – and it was my name and this first list was eight…
ID: St. Luke’s vendor suffers data breach affecting some patients
KMVT reports: St. Luke’s says it was informed by a business vendor of a data breach the vendor says could have affected patients and members of certain customers. The hospital system says one of its vendors informed them of a cybersecurity incident that occurred in late May of this year. The vendor had a contract…
Top secret documents scattered in street after careless disposal by German Chancellor Scholz
Emma Crabtree reports: The Chancellor’s bin bags were placed outside his private apartment and torn open by foxes, leaving the documents open in public. Multiple news sources have since criticised the German leader for using such a careless disposal method. Read more at Express. The documents were unshredded and just bagged and binned, it seems.