Erin Robinson reports: The personal health information of more than 1,000 people may have been disclosed when staff at Spokane Regional Health District opened a phishing email. The data breach happened on December 21, 2021. SRHD Information Technology staff were immediately alerted and discovered files containing client-protected health information may have been “previewed” by the…
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Crawford County, Arkansas still impacted by ransomware attack last month
KNWA reports: Crawford County is still dealing with a cyberattack that happened around Christmas. According to the assistant to the county judge, unknown ransomware hit the county’s servers on December 26. Some limited previous coverage on the breach can be found here.
Hacktivists Claim Ransomware Strike on Belarus Railway Intended to Disrupt Russian Forces
Hacktivism is not dead, although it hasn’t been in the news quite as much as financially driven ransomware incidents these past few years. Lucas Ropek reports: In an apparent bid to stop a Russian arms build-up near the Ukrainian border, a “pro-democracy” hacktivist group claims to have hacked the Belarusian railway system—allegedly one of the conduits for tanks and…
Chester County Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Area College Computer Networks
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Timothy Spillane, 39, of Chester Springs, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Joel Slomsky to accessing a protected computer network without authorization, arising from his intrusions into the digital networks of two suburban Philadelphia-area colleges. According to court documents, between November 2017…
St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab notifying more than 14,500 people after discovering multi-year misconfiguration of web portal
St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab offers a variety of types of drug screening St. Lucie, Martin, Okeechobee and Indian River Counties. Juvenile & Adult Drug Screens Court Related Drug Screens Parent Visitation Screens (parent tests before & after visitation!) Random Drug Screens Pre-employment Drug Screens Employee Drug Screens (reasonable suspicion) Student, Cadet & Athlete Screens Teenager Screens (test your teen to…
Proposed settlement reached in lawsuit against Excellus
One year after Excellus settled with OCR over a 2015 data breach, there is now a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to the breach. The terms of the settlement, which have not yet been approved by the court, do not involve paying even one dime to class members….