Cl (Update): Failure to patch resulted in an embarrassing government leak Last week, DataBreaches noted that Guacamaya Group hacktivists had leaked emails from El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other governments. Now BiobioChile reports the government is considering the…
Category: Breach Incidents
The Coeur Group notifies patients of data breach
DataBreaches has not seen anything on HHS’s public breach tool, but the Coeur Group in Omaha, Nebraska, published a legal notice about a cybersecurity incident involving patient information. According to their statement, an employee’s email account in Coeur Group’s business email system was compromised between June 7 and July 12, 2022. The breach was discovered on…
British teenager, 18, denies creating computer virus that crashed hundreds of institutions when he was just 14
David O’Dornan and Paul Higgins report: A teenager today denied creating a computer virus which allegedly ‘crashed hundreds of financial institutions across the world when he was just 14 years old. Josh Maunder, now 18, from Abbey Park in Bangor, Co Down in Northern Ireland, entered not guilty pleas to each of the 21 charges against…
Internet outage in Tucson area was due to cyber attack, Cox says
KVOA reports: An internet outage that affected Tucsonans over the weekend was due to a cyber attack, according to Cox Communications. Cox says the attack has been stopped and that no customer information was compromised. They said their efforts to stop the attack was the reason for the internet outage. Read more at KVOA.
Updates on three class action lawsuits involving patient data
Magellan Health Magellan Health agreed to pay $1.43 million to resolve data breach claims stemming from a 2019 phishing attack that exposed data for thousands of patients. The settlement benefits individuals who received a notification that their personal identifying information or personal health information may have been compromised in the 2019 Magellan Health data breach….
SCOOP: Australian national known as “DR32” to stand trial in U.S. on hacking charges
Australia has ordered an Australian national, David Kee Crees, extradited to the U.S., where he faces 22 counts involving hacking, fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Two of Crees’ better-known aliases were “Abdilo” and “DR32.” “Abdilo” DataBreaches started reporting on Crees in 2015 when he was known to this site as “Abdilo.” At the time, he…