Update of October 5, 2021: On September 22, Alaska DHSS reported this incident to HHS as a health plan, and indicated that they were notifying 500,000 individuals (even though there was no evidence of data exfiltration). As of today, some of the state’s divisions are still not fully restored on the web. The Alaska Department…
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Illinois Man Convicted of Federal Criminal Charges for Operating Subscription-Based Computer Attack Platforms
LOS ANGELES – An Illinois man was found guilty today by a federal jury for running websites that allowed paying users to launch powerful distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet. Matthew Gatrel, 32, of St. Charles, Illinois, was found…
Hackers stole Covid test data of 1.4 million people from Paris hospital system
Sarah Elzas reports: Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020. The hack of a service of the Paris public hospital system, AP-HP, is the latest in a growing number of cyberattacks on French health institutions and Covid data breaches….
Texoma Community Center notifies 24,030 patients of email hack in September, 2020
In August, Texoma Community Center in Texas (TCC) notified HHS that 24,030 patients had been impacted by breach involving a hack of email. TCC provides mental health, behavioral health, and intellectual and developmental disability services to adults and minors in the Sherman, Texas area. Today, they issued a press release concerning what they describe as…
Two more ransomware attacks on medical entities impact 56,000 patients in Florida and Texas
DataBreaches.net notes two more ransomware attacks on U.S. medical entities. Neither of the incidents below, which impact approximately 56,000 patients in Florida and Texas, have appeared on any dedicated leak site affiliated with ransomware groups or markets – at least not as of the time of this publication. And neither incident has as yet shown…
Credential leak fears raised following security breach at Travis CI
John Leyden reports: Concern is growing within the infosec community that a breach at DevOps platform vendor Travis CI might run deeper than the firm has so far been prepared to admit. Travis CI, a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for cloud platform projects, admitted to an issue in a post on its community forums while also…