Marion Renault reports: At 12:08 p.m. on a Monday, a Sky Lakes Medical Center employee tapped an email link. Within minutes, that click cracked open the Oregon hospital’s digital infrastructure for cybercriminals to infiltrate. By the time IT staff started looking into it, “everything was being encrypted,” said John Gaede, director of information services. On…
Author: Dissent
Update to Christie Clinics breach disclosure
On March 25, Christie Business Holdings Company, P.C. (“Christie Clinic”) disclosed a breach. As DataBreaches.net reported the next day, the clinic reported that an unauthorized actor had gained access to one business email account between July 14, 2021 and August 19, 2021. Christie’s investigation indicated that the intent of the attacker may have been to…
AlphaV claims attack on Florida International University (updated)
It’s been a while since DataBreaches.net reported on data security incident involving Florida International University in Miami, but if AlphaV’s claims are true, they have been breached again. AlphaV (“BlackCat”) added FIU to their leak site and claim: In our design the following information: -Personal information of students and teaching staff, including confidential data, SSN,…
NYS Comptroller releases more school district IT Audits
Readers may want to read the full LaFargeville report, linked below, because it provides information to school districts about best practices and recommendations for how to accomplish certain security goals. LaFargeville Central School District – Information Technology (Jefferson County) Key Findings District officials did not establish adequate IT controls over physical IT assets and non-student user…
TN: Humphreys County sheriffs arrest two for forgery, identity theft, outstanding felony warrants
Darby McCarthy reports: Early Saturday morning, Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Team B Nights arrested Letia Leco of Camden and Richard Flowers of Jackson on charges of forgery, identity theft and outstanding felony warrants from multiple jurisdictions. Leco and Flowers were found at a hotel in Buffalo with several hundred forged commercial bank checks, over…
War stirs up cybercrime
(Machine translation of German-language article at zdf.de). Peter Wering reports: ….. Russian groups are currently making little ransom from ransomware attacks…. That is why Russian IT criminals have partially relocated their activities to Ukraine. There they are attacking Ukrainian IT infrastructure on behalf of the Kremlin. But they also use the Internet connections there to…