Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the arrest of FOSTER COOLEY for charges in connection with a scheme to conduct cyber intrusions targeting a New York-based…
Category: Breach Incidents
Acuity Brand press release addresses two hacking incidents from 2020 and 2021
Today’s reminder that a lot of businesses have health plans for their employees. Acuity Brands in Georgia has issued a press release with the results of its investigations into two breaches that they report were unrelated. From their statement: The investigation determined that an unauthorized person obtained access to some of Acuity’s systems on December…
Receivables Performance Management reveals ransomware attack in May 2021
Receivables Performance Management (RPM), a business associate to a number of businesses, including those in the healthcare sector, has been notifying regulators and individuals bout an incident in 2021 that reportedly impacted more than half a million Texans and an as-yet untold total number of individuals. The Washington state entity revealed that on May 12,…
Another class action lawsuit against Empress EMS filed over July ransomware attack
Another lawsuit has been filed in the wake of a ransomware attack on a New York ambulance service. Now we hear that the victim paid ransom. Will it make a difference? Firehouse reports: A lawsuit has been filed against Empress Ambulance in New York after hackers accessed patient information. According to the class action lawsuit…
CommonSpirit Health Provides Cyberattack Update and Notification of Data Breach Involving Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Washington state
There was an update on December 1 to the CommonSpirit ransomware attack that DataBreaches has reported on multiple times already. Press release: On October 2, 2022, CommonSpirit detected activity on its IT network that was later determined to be ransomware. CommonSpirit immediately took steps to secure the network, which included proactively taking certain systems offline, and…
Brazilian debt collection firm pays Hive $500k ransom while SuspectFile spectates it all
Marco A. De Felice (aka @amvinfe) had a bird’s eye view of negotiations between a Brazilian credit recovery and financial solutions firm and the Hive ransomware team. He also got to track the victim’s payment over wallets. Reading his partial transcript from the negotiations, the victim quickly went from an offer of $50k — an…