From the notice on their website: Notice Regarding Recent Data Breach What Happened? On January 18, 2022, Wheeling Health Right discovered that our organization was victimized by a ransomware attack that encrypted our systems. Upon discovery of the security incident, we engaged legal counsel and a data breach remediation firm to conduct an investigation into…
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HIPAA’s Role in Setting Good Security
Matt Fisher writes: The Office for Civil Rights is promoting HIPAA as being able to prevent or substantially mitigate the impacts of a cyber attack. It is a bold statement from OCR and one that bears unpacking. Why is OCR asserting that HIPAA can prevent or substantially mitigate a cyber attack? The primary answer is…
Computer consultant sentenced to prison for access device fraud scheme
ATLANTA – Kevin Kirton has been sentenced for running an access device fraud scheme that involved stealing over $600,000 in fraudulent tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service. “Kirton created technical ‘solutions’ to conduct his own fraud schemes and help others commit fraud,” said U.S. Attorney Kurt R. Erskine. “Every thief believes they have developed…
Health insurance: Data of more than 500,000 people stolen in France
Hannah Thompson reports: The health data of more than half a million people in France have been stolen from insurance body l’Assurance maladie after the accounts of healthcare staff were hacked. The 19 accounts, mainly belonging to pharmacists, were hacked after their email addresses were compromised. Data stolen include the names, surnames, date of birth,…
While questions about RaidForums remain unanswered, BreachForums opens
On February 25, popular hacking-related forum RaidForums.com (RF) appeared to have been seized. It was not the first time it had appeared to have problems, but in the past, the owner, “Omnipotent” had reappeared briefly to restore the site somewhat. Now it did not appear to be working at all and had been replaced by…
TransUnion hackers demand R224-million ransom — threaten to leak Absa, FNB, Standard Bank data
MyBroadband follows up on a story initially broken by ITWeb yesterday. They now report: The South African division of US-based consumer credit bureau TransUnion has suffered a ransomware attack. In a statement on Thursday, the company acknowledged that a third party had gained access to one of its servers through misuse of an authorised client’s credentials. “We…