There’s a small update in the proceedings involving Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” the U.K. national who has been charged in the Eastern District of Missouri for his alleged role in hacks and extortion attempts by thedarkoverlord (TDO). Wyatt had been charged in a sealed indictment back in 2017, and was arrested in the U.K….
Category: Health Data
Brandywine Counseling and Community Services notifies patients of ransomware incident
Brandywine Counseling and Community Services, Inc. disclosed a breach. Note that this is not the Brandywine Urology breach recently disclosed but a different entity and a different breach. DataBreaches.net has reached out to Brandywine Counseling to ask for clarification on certain details, but has not received any response by publication time. This incident is not…
Teenage hacker arrested in Madrid for hacking medical data and leaking information on a politician positive for COVID-19
Dimitris Kouimtsidis reports: A 16-year-old hacker has been arrested for hacking medical data and then leaking information about a politician who was positive with coronavirus. Agents from the Technological Investigation Unit of the Policia Nacional arrested the teenager in Madrid. He had managed to hack into the servers of the Madrid health service and obtain…
Hackers may have accessed personal information of Aurora Medical Center Bay Area patients
Jake Prinsen reports: Hackers may have stolen personal information from patients at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area. Someone used an email phishing scam around January 1 to gain access to email accounts of several of the Marinette hospital’s employees, according to Advocate Health Aurora. Read more on Green Bay Press Gazette.
Oakland County stops COVID-19 data leak
Orion Sang reports: Oakland County secured a data leakage of internal COVID-19 data that was used by the Oakland County Health Division for public health analysis. The leakage originated on Tuesday night and was stopped Wednesday morning. […] The data that was leaked was “of a non-public map that was unintentionally marked as public during…
Ca: Privacy breach company remains part of B.C. health data sharing
Jeremy Hainsworth reports: A medical company hit by an October ransomware data privacy breach affecting 15 million Canadians is again named in a B.C. ministerial order as a company that can share British Columbians’ data. But, say observers, there is no issue for British Columbians to worry about as any liability rests with the government…