DataBreaches.net has received the following statement from Charlotte LaGrone, Executive Director of Communications for Weatherford ISD, concerning the breach DataBreaches.net reported yesterday: Weatherford ISD Statement on Data Breach The confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in our care is one of our highest priorities. Despite multiple layers of processes and procedures to prevent a data…
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East Tennessee Children’s Hospital updates information on ransomware incident
On March 15, this site noted that the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital had posted a notice about an IT security incident. At the time, they did not identify the incident as a ransomware incident. DataBreaches.net subsequently found some explanation for that notice — a listing on a Russian-language forum offering data from ETCH with numerous…
Microsoft on disrupting cyberattacks targeting Ukraine; Facebook on countering Ghostwriter’s attempts
Tom Burt , the Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust at Microsoft writes: Today, we’re sharing more about cyberattacks we’ve seen from a Russian nation-state actor targeting Ukraine and steps we’ve taken to disrupt it. We recently observed attacks targeting Ukrainian entities from Strontium, a Russian GRU-connected actor we have tracked for years. This…
Five ransomware groups, five victims… will it ever ease up?
The following is a snapshot of recent attacks on U.S. healthcare entities by ransomware teams. #1 First Choice Community Healthcare – Hive Hive threat actors have never sworn off attacking the healthcare sector. In addition to claiming that they attacked the Partnership HealthPlan of California on March 19 (an attack that has impacted PHPC’s functioning),…
Two Texas school districts report breaches, but what happened?
Two Texas school districts — Weatherford Independent School District and Tuloso Midway ISD — reported breaches to the Texas Attorney General’s Office last month, but to cut to the chase, DataBreaches.net has no idea what happened in each case. The Weatherford ISD incident reportedly affected 1,254 Texans. The breach was reported to the state on…
Bank of Ireland fined €463,000 for data breaches
Brian O’Donovan reports: Bank of Ireland has been fined €463,000 by the Data Protection Commission for data breaches affecting more than 50,000 customers. It follows an inquiry into 22 personal data breach notifications that Bank of Ireland made to the Commission between 9 November 2018 and 27 June 2019. One of the data breach notifications…